Brad Templeton summarizes the impacts of the DMCA focusing primarily on Dmitry Skylarov's case from the point of view of an eBook publisher. Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian graduate student who made some discoveries about inadequacies of Adobe Digital Rights Management for eBooks and published a paper on it. The paper caught the eye of two groups, one a Russian software company ElcomSoft, and the other, the DEF CON electronic security conference. ElcomSoft paid Dmitry to demonstrate these weaknesses by creating a program which ElcomSoft then marketed around the world (including the United States). DEF CON honored Dmitry's work by inviting him to speak at their conference. While he was speaking at the conference, Adobe filed a complaint with the federal government about the software ElcomSoft and politely pointed out where one of the developers might be found. Mr. Skylarov was then incarcerated for weeks, and kept in the country for months before charges were dropped. Mr. Skylarov broke no law in the country in which he wrote the software but because the company whom he sold it to engaged in potentially questionable business in the United States, he was detained. Computer scientists and researchers who do work relating to Digital Rights Management and cryptography will be less likely to come to American under fear of similar treatment and prosecution, significantly hurting the research community.

Templeton's role as an eBook publisher is important as he has experience with eBooks and is financially hurt by eBook piracy, yet he still supports an open format. He's even apart of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is strongly against DRM.  He discusses the failure of DRM and the benefits of open formats. Open formats are at a greater risk than closed but also see greater sales because of their increased utility. He also points out that as long as the DMCA prevents people from cracking poorly designed locks, there is less of an incentive to design better, more secure locks, stifling developments in security research. Templeton concludes that scapegoating weak DRM on a foreign visiting scholar only hurts the interests of the consumer, the research community, and the copyright holders whom the lock is designed to protect.