I adore technology, but the legal system has given enormous power for Technological Protection Measures to smash property rights & generally exact absurd levels

I adore technology, but the legal system has given enormous power for Technological Protection Measures to smash property rights & generally exact absurd levels of control. It's enormously saddening to see that which should be raising and liberating humankind, to see our tool-making, used to choke & restrain humankind; what an infernal curse! Written up two decades ago by Mark Lemley, Terms of Use, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=917926 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=917926