[Mindwipe]

Holland and every EU country also has an anti-circumvention provision similar to the DMCA.

Indeed, it's an easier case than in the US in many EU nations IMO, and with criminal rather than civil penalties in some of them.

[shiroiushi]

Well in that case, never mind. Why did the EU adopt such awful laws? Did they look at the US and think "let's make an even worse copyright law!"?

[Mindwipe]

There's this weird thing where people don't understand that Europe has a long history of very strong copyright law. The life + 70 years term of copyright comes from Germany, not the US, and globally companies harmonised there.

There's also an international treaty, WIPO Copyright Treaty, that requires signatories to enact anti-circumvention provisions. The EU and the US both agreed and signed it before the DMCA.