> The damage that did to curious people growing up lost the US a significant fraction of their upcoming "innovation" talent. While not diminishing the folks who leaned in to the illegality of it.
It is very difficult to see how that is the case when pretty much every functioning nation has substantially similar laws.
Nobody really cared in the scene about the DMCA until the FBI started taking people offline. Even then? It stopped nobody, people just got more security aware.
It is very difficult to see how that is the case when pretty much every functioning nation has substantially similar laws.