Beyond Hacking the Xbox (O'Reilly) [LWN.net]

Bruce Stewart interviews Andrew "bunnie" Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox, on O'Reilly. "To some extent, the DMCA has already stifled reverse engineering. The fear and doubt that surrounds the activity has been enough to deter most technical people. The contrast between engineers in the U.S. and those overseas in countries without the DMCA, or DMCA-like laws, is quite stark. The technology marketplace is extremely competitive, and anything that slows down our ability to compete, such as depriving engineers of the unfettered freedom to reverse engineer competing products, may prove to have very undesirable long-term consequences."

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