We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.
“In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.”