Not just the games consoles and DVD players where it was then used, but medical implants, tractors, cars, appliances - anything you could put a chip into (Jay Freeman calls this "felony contempt of business-model"):
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon
He ignored those warnings and signed the DMCA anyway (fuck that guy). Then, under GWB (fuck that guy), the US Trade Rep went all around the world demanding that America's trading partners adopt versions of this law (fuck that guy)
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