Back in the day, in arguments about somehow unshackling ourselves from the oppressive, miserable, anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, there was a lot of pessimism that the skein of global trade treaties internationalizing those provisions had effectively locked them in, US domestic politics would face a battle so uphill it’d be a cliff. 1/
At least in many respects, that entire treatyworld now seems a dead letter. Does that mean we should be more hopeful we might get at least this one nightmare off our backs? /fin