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Re:Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game prese... by azalemeth on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @06:52PM (#29260461)
In the US at least, it's not the legislators – it's the library of congress, who in 2018 allowed (under some very limited circumstances) breaking DRM to fix hardware [1].

In the UK (and I think most of the EU) there are similar national bodies to which one can apply for permission to break DRM -- e.g. in the UK there's a long and complex review process by the civil servants at the department for culture, media and sport [2]. Of course, none of these things actually break DRM. They just say that you can break DRM without getting in trouble.

Who knows, in 2055 maybe my handy device at `/dev/quantum/simultaneous_annealer` will magically break five rounds of 256-bit AES or whatever Microsoft use...

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/26/18027200/video-game-drm-c...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technological-pro...

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Re:Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game prese... by foota on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:09PM (#29260597)
In an alternate universe, far far away:

"I am the library of the Senate!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtaEdpEuOyE)

I find it amusing that this power is vested in the library of congress.

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Re:Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game prese... by SomeHacker44 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:40PM (#29260799)
In the USA, delegation of powers to regulators is the norm. The "Library of Congress" is just another regulator here.
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