17 U.S.C. § 1201 (1998); U.S. Copyright Off,, Rep. on Section 1201 of Title 17 (2017)  On June 22, 2017, the United States Copyright Office released the first comprehensive public report assessing 17 U.S.C. Section 1201, also known as the Anti-Circumvention Provision. The controversial legislation, which makes it illegal to circumvent any technological protection measure (“TPM”) that controls access to copyrighted digital material, has far-reaching implications for technology use, including encryption research, reverse engineering, and security testing. To the disappointment of digital rights groups, the Copyright Office proposed only minor reforms and declined to address the basic framework of Section 1201, contending that “the statute’s overall structure and scope— including its treatment of circumvention as a standalone violation independent of copyright...