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Originally Posted by ApK
While I get what you're trying to say, your facts are confused. It's not "encryption" that triggers the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA, it's ANY technological measure to control access.
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My facts are correct. Encryption
does trigger DMCA protections, and there is a prohibition on circumventing it. The fact that other access controls have the same effect was not relevant to my point. You're just muddying the waters here.
Regarding the barcode scanner, I don't recall the players involved. I only recall how loosely the court interprets encryption. Copyright holders are abusing this particular DMCA provision. E.g. Apple used encryption in the Finder app solely to open up the box of DMCA tools to prosecute consumers who would install OS/X on non-Apple hardware (which is legal outside the US). The Finder encryption serves no purpose other than to legally hook in the DMCA. The "encryption" might as well be an XOR operation.