There's no legal mechanism for the president or the government at all to do that.
There's no legal mechanism for the president or the government at all to do that.
Often it happens anyway, along with some protests, some resignations and maybe an eventual court case reversal months or years later.
> The “tools” prohibitions, set out in sections 1201(a)(2) and 1201(b), outlaw the manufacturing, sale, distribution, or trafficking of tools and technologies that make circumvention possible. These provisions ban both technologies that defeat access controls, and also technologies that defeat use restrictions imposed by copyright owners, such as copy controls. These provisions prohibit the distribution of software that was designed to defeat CD copy-protection technologies, for example.
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