On May 2, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Andrew Lih wrote:
For reference:
From U.S. Code TITLE 17 > CHAPTER 12 > § 1201
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
Yes. There is a good argument for it. There's also the very good argument against it being illegal, which is that it's not a program or a piece of technology - it's a number, and a number that can be found unencrypted without any effort to hack, crack, or otherwise break into anything (The number was discovered just by watching what went through the DVD player's memory.)
-Phil