Following the Colorado Super-DMCA Bill

In the last few weeks I've been far too busy to blog or to read blogs, but today I decided to follow up on the issue of the "Super-DMCA" bills floating around in various states including my own, Colorado. I dropped by Ed Felten's Super-DMCA page and found that the Colorado Senate had passed a version of the bill.

I was pleased to find that the Colorado Senate had struck the provisions on "illegal telecommuncations equipment" that threatened to make basic secure communications technologies illegal. However, I then turned the page and found that the anti-circumvention provisions are still around.

The Colorado Senate also added some interesting savings provisions designed to protect "multipurpose devices" with more than limited "commercially significant purpose or use other than as an unlawful access device." The revision also has a paragraph that seems to be intended to make it clear that the legislature does not want anyone to interpret the law to mandate any sort of access protection. I'll have to take a closer look at that later.

But for now, it's back to work for me.