DRM for batteries

[Jason]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> Over all, I find it hard to see how such a product can really make
> sense, however.  If there's enough money to make it worth trying to keep
> the clone makers out, there's enough money in it for the clone makers to
> be willing to invest in determining the secret information.  Given the

Thanks to the DMCA anti-circumvention clause, your access control mechanism 
need not actually work.  This is fortunate (for them) given that in many 
contexts there doesn't actually exist something that could be expected to 
work.  So we let them, in effect, put a sticker on the side that magically 
increases the legal penalties for doing things they don't like.

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