Tom Lee says that while the new DMCA exemptions are an improvement, the basic paradox of telling consumers how they may use electronics remains unaddressed:
Many of the exemptions are like this: They establish an island of protected use that slopes sharply down to the treacherous, crashing surf of consumer behavior — a zone where the authorities will never bother to venture, and where an Xbox mod chip based on protected research can easily enable piracy with firmware downloaded from an overseas server. Research done to make locked-down eBooks useful to the visually impaired also helps to make it easier to pirate them on Bittorrent. It’s a compromise. The DVD companies retain their nominal rights, consumers are mostly free to make reasonable use of things they’ve bought, and no one else has to go to jail — not unless they have the temerity to start making money off this arrangement, anyway.