Reminds me of Stallman's "Right to Read", though the fiction is a rather hackneyed vehicle for the message: "...there was a time when anyone could have debuggi

Reminds me of Stallman's "Right to Read", though the fiction is a rather hackneyed vehicle for the message: "...there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge ruled that this had become their principal use in actual practice. This meant they were illegal; the debuggers' developers were sent to prison...."