Line between hacking and reverse engineering

Scientists are reverse engineering the galaxy. So why is it illegal to reverse engineer a DVD player or the iPhone? So how is it that the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) — an odious piece of lobbyist-written legislation if there ever was one — can make a crime out of reverse engineering? The DMCA circumvents laws governing copyright, patent, property and free speech by declaring unlawful the most essential right of all: the right to know.

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