A few quick words...

I suppose I do need to say something about the paper. Yes, it was done and in on time. No, I'm not 100% satisfied with it. Here's the quick and dirty.
16 doublespaced pages (first draft) arguing that DMCA is chilling encryption research (no big shock to anyone following DMCA news). Specific examples on how DMCA is chilling encryption research included the obvious - Ed Felten, Sklyarov and its effect on techies, DirecTV's current wave of litigation re: smart card programmers. I also threw in one encrypted paragraph (A trick I saw in another really good article by Brian Bolinger), and an argument that we can meet the WIPO demands by just making encryption circumvention a factor in determining the amount of damages assessed in copyright infringement cases. Let's say you infringe someone's copyright by making copies of their music and selling them.
If that's Celine Dion, and you defeated cd copy protection to do what you're doing, we'll throw the book at you harder than if you were doing, say, a ten year old Queen cd. Note: in neither case would just putting the songs on your own computer and NOT SHARING THEM be a violation in and of itself, or to the extent that it was a violation, it should be allowed anyway via fair-use doctrines.
Anyway, just in case anyone's really interested. And I know you all are! ^.^''