EFF Announces Endangered Gizmos List

After endangered species, here come endangered gizmos!

Obviously, these devices are endangered not because they are not good, but really because they are under the treath of lawsuits. This might be obvious, but it really isn't. If you look at the products, it's not clear why they would be instinct, right? I mean all these products were "good", although one could argue some of them were illegal. It's kind of shocking.

Take a product like DVD X-Copy. Do we really need to have a law that protects your right to make a backup of the product you buy? Still, a lawsuit was able to cripple DVD X-Copy. The interesting part for me in this is that the copyright laws, the DMCA, and all those laws are there to protect the society as whole, not simply to protect a few people. It sometimes might be hard to keep a balance, for example I would really like to see what balance would be like for the VSDA, but the debate seem so one sided, simply because congress does not appear to really represent our rights.