The Hollywood Cartels are so scared of their customers that they would rather kill them than allow DRM to be broken. In a recent submission to the Copyright office about potential exemptions to the DMCA, the Hollywood Cartels argued that allowing any DRM to be removed should be illegal even if it endangers people’s lives:

They’re worried that there might be “serious doubt” about whether their future DRM access control systems are covered by these exemptions, and they think the doubt “would be even more severe” if the “exemption would turn on whether access controls ‘threaten critical infrastructure and potentially endanger lives’.”

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And here’s the really amazing part. In order to protect their ability to deploy this dangerous DRM, they want the Copyright Office to withhold from users permission to uninstall DRM software that actually does threaten critical infrastructure and endanger lives.

If Sony’s next DRM debacle enables a virus to cause havoc on the internet? Too bad, Hollywood would rather shut down vital infrastructure.

Your doctor needs to break DRM to get access to your medical files in an emergency? Too bad, Hollywood would rather let you die.