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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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In 1998, Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). DMCA Section 1201 makes it a felony to practice adversarial interoperability, establishing penalties of $500k and five years in prison for people who reverse engineer and modify products:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/#world-turned-upside-down
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