[wmf]

Between patents, trade secrets, and DMCA, the government is the source of the problem here. Arguably the FTC could step in here but I think they have bigger problems to tackle.

[shiroiushi]

>Between patents, trade secrets, and DMCA, the government is the source of the problem here.

The government created the playing field. The only entity that can fix the situation is the government: they created a bad playing field, and they need to fix it.

[wmf]

That's true but I think the US's overall IP regime is not going to change and they also aren't going to carve out many exceptions.

[anordal]

But not all governments, thankfully. Remember DVD-Jon? He won the trial for breaking DVD crypto, because consumer rights stood above trade secrets.