A nice demonstration of how absurd the DMCA is: a manufacturer of voting systems wants to hide behind it and cover up its errors and manipulation possibilities for the voting systems. In the long run, I'm sure society's higher interest in voting machines will prevail—I wouldn't even credit the USA with letting this slide. But it points to a general problem with all the copyright tightening, patent demands, and user restrictions that have been increasingly demanded recently: the end user not only receives fewer usage rights, they also receive fewer control options. And it's made far too easy for manufacturers to hide behind various laws and cover up shoddy work, deliberate manipulation, and misuse of market power. Another reason to preferably use open source systems for critical systems.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.