Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you need the DMCA to protect these things?
I'm asking for clarification of the impact of this bill. Do you know the answers to those two questions off hand?
Is this FUD? The point of DMCA anti-circumvention is that it makes a crime out of things that were otherwise legal, not tack on charges to things that are illegal for other reasons.
FTFA:
"- It amends Section 1201 to make it clear that it is completely legal to "circumvent" if there is no copyright infringement.
"- It legalizes tools and services that enable circumvention as long as they are intended for non-infringing uses.
"- It changes Copyright Law to specify that unlocking cell phones is not copyright infringement."
Or you could read the text the bill adds to DMCA:
It is not a violation of this section to use, manu- 8 facture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise 9 traffic in any technology, product, service, device, compo- 10 nent, or part thereof that is primarily designed or pro- 11 duced for the purpose of facilitating noninfringing uses of 12 works protected under this title by circumventing a tech- 13 nological measure that effectively controls access to that 14 work, unless it is the intent of the person that uses, manu- 15 factures, imports, offers to the public, provides, or traffics 16 in the technology, product, service, device, component, or 17 part to infringe copyright or to facilitate the infringement 18 of a copyright.’’.
emphasis added by me.