"...and DRM is explicitly allowed to be broken on out of copyright works.",
This brings to mind a point I made when DRM first started doing the rounds and again when laws were brought in making it illegal to "hack" or reverse-engineer the encryption. What happens to a copyrighted work when the copyright expires but the only copies available are DRMed? Does the law allow for "cracking" DRM on a work with an expired copyright or was that scenario never envisaged by the lawmakers?
No doubt the copyright holder will have a non-DRMed version of the work, but they are under no obligation to release that once the copyright expires. They can just keep selling the DRMed version.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
