How could you know the answer to a legal question offhand?
Is this FUD? The point of DMCA anti-circumvention is that it makes a crime out of things that were otherwise legal, not tack on charges to things that are illegal for other reasons.
FTFA:
"- It amends Section 1201 to make it clear that it is completely legal to "circumvent" if there is no copyright infringement.
"- It legalizes tools and services that enable circumvention as long as they are intended for non-infringing uses.
"- It changes Copyright Law to specify that unlocking cell phones is not copyright infringement."
Or you could read the text the bill adds to DMCA:
It is not a violation of this section to use, manu-
8 facture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise
9 traffic in any technology, product, service, device, compo-
10 nent, or part thereof that is primarily designed or pro-
11 duced for the purpose of facilitating noninfringing uses of
12 works protected under this title by circumventing a tech-
13 nological measure that effectively controls access to that
14 work, unless it is the intent of the person that uses, manu-
15 factures, imports, offers to the public, provides, or traffics
16 in the technology, product, service, device, component, or
17 part to infringe copyright or to facilitate the infringement
18 of a copyright.’’.
Why would you expose such information in a way that it is protected only by a mechanism that the public has access to? It seems like you are asking if fixing the DMCA would remove protection for irresponsible behavior.
IIRC, the DMCA makes it a criminal act, whereas otherwise it might only be governed by civil law. If I'm contractually obligated to only read a stock market report myself, but I show it to a friend, do I deserve jail time, or just to get sued?
Is this FUD? The point of DMCA anti-circumvention is that it makes a crime out of things that were otherwise legal, not tack on charges to things that are illegal for other reasons.
FTFA:
"- It amends Section 1201 to make it clear that it is completely legal to "circumvent" if there is no copyright infringement.
"- It legalizes tools and services that enable circumvention as long as they are intended for non-infringing uses.
"- It changes Copyright Law to specify that unlocking cell phones is not copyright infringement."
Or you could read the text the bill adds to DMCA:
It is not a violation of this section to use, manu- 8 facture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise 9 traffic in any technology, product, service, device, compo- 10 nent, or part thereof that is primarily designed or pro- 11 duced for the purpose of facilitating noninfringing uses of 12 works protected under this title by circumventing a tech- 13 nological measure that effectively controls access to that 14 work, unless it is the intent of the person that uses, manu- 15 factures, imports, offers to the public, provides, or traffics 16 in the technology, product, service, device, component, or 17 part to infringe copyright or to facilitate the infringement 18 of a copyright.’’.
emphasis added by me.