If you really really need another example of the, entirely forseen, consequences of over protecting anti-circumvention devices you may have it from this cell phone unlocking article from Wired.
You may have seen this film before dear reader. Geeklawyer will give you the teaser script: BigBadCellphone company has great business idea: sell really cheap phones. Lock customer into phone with magic software and long contract.
Charge bucketloads for roaming, email, SMS, voicemail yada yada. Cheap phone becomes expensive. BigBadCellphone happy, customer not. Along comes young Software Turk, has key to magic lock. Customer happy, gets to choose other phone companies. BigBadCellphone unhappy - cries ‘DMCA’, lets slip the Dogs of Law. As the end credits roll a bloodied cooling body lies on the ground. But is it BigBadCellphone or Young Turk?
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