... these fields. But the provisions are also technically unsound in some respects and need to be refined to align better with standard practices in these fields and to allow decisions that are more pragmatic in the context of encryption research and computer security testing. The committee's response to and deliberations regarding regulation of what the DMCA calls circumvention technologies reflected the conflicting views evident across the range of stakeholders. Many committee members felt strongly that developing a tool to accomplish any lawful act of circumvention should be lawful, even if the DMCA does not explicitly authorize the development of such a tool. They also believed that a right to develop such tools is implied in the right to engage in lawful circumvention. Others felt strongly that the existing exceptions to anticircumvention rules in the DMCA adequately protect legitimate user interests and regarded as unnecessary any permitting of tool development to ...

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