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Are you aware, child, that if your next-door neighbor steals your car, rapes your mother, or shoots your father, he has not "endanger[ed] the national security of the United States or cause a clear and present danger to public safety"?

What part of "Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of speech." You only make yourself look like an idiot by bringing violent crime into a debate about free speech. Violent crime is not speech, nor is it art. Writing an essay on the flaws and potential ways to exploit said flaws of a DRM system is a form of speech. If it neither endangers national security nor puts the public at risk of harm then it is protected by the first amendment. In a society that actually follows its Constitution, my right to publish the flaws in your software and potential means (ie not code, but maybe an algorithm) to exploit them outweigh your IP protection.

You only make yourself look like an idiot by bringing violent crime into a debate about free speech.

You're the one who brought up "public safety and national security" as a basis for measuring whether a particular violation of law merits enforcement, dood. See post #55:

"Or you are sued into bankrupcy by an industry trade group trying to use a corrupt law to supress your first amendment right to publish any writing or artistic work that does not endanger the national security of the United States or cause a clear and present danger to public safety. Copyright infringement does neither."

Don Joe pointed out violent crime as a means of showing you how absurd your system of measurement is.

Tell me something, college, boy. What college or university are you attending? Because someday, my kids are going to college ... and I'd sooner flush the tuition money down the toilet than subject them to the same anarcho-marxist indoctrination that you've apparently swallowed.

"What part of 'Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of speech.' You only make yourself look like an idiot by bringing violent crime into a debate about free speech. Violent crime is not speech, nor is it art. Writing an essay on the flaws and potential ways to exploit said flaws of a DRM system is a form of speech. If it neither endangers national security nor puts the public at risk of harm then it is protected by the first amendment. In a society that actually follows its Constitution, my right to publish the flaws in your software and potential means (ie not code, but maybe an algorithm) to exploit them outweigh your IP protection."

Theft of property is not "free speech". Hell, you probably think spam is "free speech" too, doncha.

Good grief you're a real piece of work you are. That bit about your right to my property outweighing MY rights to it was prime, really prime, Mr. Trotsky.