DMCA 1201 is a whole different can of worms, one which isn't really affected by the copyright term. 1201's whole purpose is "anticircumvention": to ban tools fo

DMCA 1201 is a whole different can of worms, one which isn't really affected by the copyright term. 1201's whole purpose is "anticircumvention": to ban tools for breaking DRM, not to actually punish infringement. That is, The Matrix being out of copyright tomorrow wouldn't change anything for DeCSS under 1201. The linked blog post here is actually quite strange: the post is talking about 1201 abuse, but the proposal is about copyright infringement and 512 takedown, neither of which are really related to 1201. So its hard to see how this would "blunt" 1201 at all. The recent high-profile situations have blurred the lines between the takedown provisions and the anticircumvention ones, especially as they just get listed in a "dmca" repository on Github, and the post even mentions this in the case of the Widevine takedowns, but the little technicalities do in fact matter here.