Slashdot had an article (discussion) on this. Lots of interesting points get raised when hundreds or thousands of highly educated techies comment on something:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/21/210228
Also, Slashdot had another copyright related story today:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/22/0516243
DRM More Important Than Life or Security?
An anonymous reader writes "Ed Felten of Freedom to Tinker has an interesting writeup regarding how copyright holders are still having serious objections to the built in exceptions of the DMCA even when it might threaten lives or national security. From the article: 'One would have thought they'd make awfully sure that a DRM measure didn't threaten critical infrastructure or endanger lives, before they deployed that measure. But apparently they want to keep open the option of deploying DRM even when there are severe doubts about whether it threatens critical infrastructure and potentially endangers lives.'"
Yes, that's right. The assorted 'porkerations' behind the DMCA are so completely corrupt and insensate to human life that they are lobbying against even exceptions to preserve human life or the general public welfare.
Their profits are more important than anything else...