&quot;Your examples of changing weapons to be untraceable or more lethal are not apropos because these are violations of legal restrictions passed by congress into law.
&quot;<p>So is the DMCA?<p>I&#x27;m not understanding what distinction you are making. They became federal crimes identically.<p>&quot;You can not saw off a shotgun not because Browning doesn&#x27;t want you to saw it off, but because sawed off shotguns are not legal.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure how this is relevant, particularly?
What relevance does <i>who</i> wants you to not touch your property matter to your notion you should free to do with your property what you want.<p>&quot;What the DMCA does is take a manufacturer&#x27;s prerogative and elevate it to the status of federal crime as soon as the manufacturer decides to create a &quot;digital rights management&quot; scheme to enforce that prerogative.
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I&#x27;m quite aware of what the DMCA says (and in fact, have been directly involved in pushing back on large numbers of crappy DMCA requests).<p>I&#x27;m trying to understand why you think this is special somehow, compared to all the other things that folks have made it illegal to do with your property, which span the gamut from government saying you can&#x27;t do this directly, to government saying you can&#x27;t do what this other guy says you can&#x27;t do, to etc.