"code as law" breaks down in court   (geekin, link)

"[I]nteroperable devices" may use proprietary security systems to lock out unauthorized interoperability, but a technology developed solely for this functional purpose is not copyrightable.
 -ArsTechnica, Lexmark's DMCA aspirations all but dead

Suck it, DMCA-enforced monopolies! (At least on one front...)