[sjy]

There may be significant differences between US and EU copyright laws, but the anti-circumvention laws in question here are pretty consistent, as they implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty ratified by both the US and the EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention

[ferdek]

Then I wonder if level of security a given anti-circumvention technology implements matters in the EU.

See, I strongly believe (and heard of such cases in the past) that where I live, if I "hacked" into a computer system which had administrator password set as "admin123" and the owner sued me, he would be laughed at at the court and I was let free. And I believe in the US I would be convicted for computer crime.

Isn't it the same here? If Youtube's anti-circumvention tech whatever it is that DMCA compliant refers to is so weak that source code how to circumvent it is in the wild for years and Youtube does nothing to address it, isn't it theirs fault? :shrug:

We're both IANALs, but it is interesting to put it into perspective that the same sentences that makes laws mean something totally different in practice on two sides of the globe due to cultural differences and/or origins of given laws.