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Thank you Xenophon, for your clear and reasoned explanation of this core issue. It seems to me that this issue of DRM-and-copyrights is what is confounding wider adoption of eBook publishing. It seems like the technological issues are more easily addressed than this political one. Yet if we can get this political issue resolved so that everyone knows what the rule is, job definitions for programmers can be written with more confidence and rational technology investment decisions can be made by manufacturers, publishers and consumers.
I'm no lawyer but as a layman I can hope that the courts will someday rule portions of this law too vague to be enforced in the context of current technologies (most of the copyright laws--especially as regards books--were developed in a different reality). I'm hoping the courts will toss the whole mess back into the political arena where it belongs. But it's understandable why the courts are reluctant to take such a step, especially if neither side of the debate wants to let the courts look at it in any detail.
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