article: DeCSS ban violated free speech
As for the DMCA the waters are still muddied and we still can't see the river bed, but the thing that caught my eye:
Lawyers are going to be picking at this for a while."The court found that reverse engineering is presumptively legal, something the plaintiff had fought tooth and nail against," he {Bunner attorney Allon Levy of Hopkins & Carley in San Jose, Calif.} said.