Cory Doctorow has been banging on about this for years. What he and the EFF don’t seem to understand, and certainly don’t care about is the creators right to protect their intellectual property. Why should it be legal for people who only bought the right to use a product, and not the right to access the creators intellectual property, be allowed to legally reverse engineer your hard work?

99% of people, myself included, couldn’t tinker or fix the electronic products they buy anyway.

The existing laws are there for good reason. This is one fight the EFF aren’t going to win.