On Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:30:47 PM UTC-8, pedro wrote:
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 15:06:30 -0800 (PST), whit3rd
wrote:

Sponsor a reverse-engineering session on any proprietary technology (and
publish everything). Customers, unlike employees, are not barred from disclosure.

I have several pieces of equipment where the manufacturer's included
software licence statement *forbids* R/E and or disclosure of any
contents thereof.

The only way to test that in a jurisdiction is to have deeper pockets.

The proposed legislation would supersede that 'requirement' by making it
illegal. At least, it'd be illegal within the jurisdiction of the law, but it'd be very
silly outside that jurisdiction, once publication has occurred.