Isn breaking HDCP against Dutch or European law?
No, it is not. I didn’t break into any computer. I just wrote a paper that demonstrates some weaknesses of HDCP. I work to make systems more secure. The only way to learn how to secure systems is to try to attack them. Therefore, part of my job is to attack cryptographic security systems. Doing so is not against Dutch law, and in general it isn’t against US law either. The DMCA outlaws it if and only if the security system is used to protect the profits of certain large corporations. Amazingly enough, corporate profits get better protection than nuclear weapons information under current US law. If you travel to the US you must accept US laws And I do, for the time that I spend in the US. The DMCA is telling me what I cannot do at home in Amsterdam. I do not accept that US laws apply to me here at home in Amsterdam. I seem to remember that one of the reasons for the US revolution was the laws and taxes that were being imposed from the other side of the ocean without any representation.
