Wow,

The whole "rights renewal" celebration just reinforces to me how sinister the DMCA actually is - all these "rights" depend on Library of Congress administrative rulings and thus are inherently revocable, in contrast to how they ought to be; inalienable and all that.

If you bought your gadget, you own it, and you should be able to install whatever software you please without facing potential legal threat

Such a simple thing but the folks who bought DMCA would never get it. Sigh!

Here's another discussion from a couple days ago about these DMCA exemption rulings: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4700010

Except tablets, because herp derp DRM