Intellectual Property and Crypto collision

[David G. Koontz]

>> ELECTRONIC MEDIA PROTECTED UNDER COPYRIGHT LAW
>> A presidential task force has recommended that electronic transmission of
>> books, magazine articles and software should be classified as copies
>> subject to existing copyright laws.   The task force also recommended that
>> it should be illegal to make or distribute products aimed at decoding
> encrypted software without the consent of the copyright owner. 
 
>Would this make it illegal to produce tools for decrypting key-escrowed
>software?   :-)


More importantly, would this firmly extend first amendment protection to 
electronicly transmitted forms?