On 5/6/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
It's for *infringement of copyright*. Trafficking in circumvention tools *is* a violation of copyright law, so it *is* a "copyright violation".
No it is a violation of intellectual property law. It doesn't behave like copyright at all so it doesn't fall under that. It has a little in common with trademark but the protection is rather wider that trademark offers. It has something in common with submarine patents but lasts longer.