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> is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title

The wording reminds me of a similar section in the German Copyright Law which outlaws the circumvention of "effective" copy-protection schemes.

How an access control scheme can be effective and circumventable at the same time is completely beyond me. :)



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