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It's a somewhat complicated story involving software written by someone in the Air Force, but ultimately they broke the code written to control pirated software, and because the government can avoid law suits by claiming Sovereign Immunity, they can't be sued.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080804-air-force-cracks-software-carpet-bombs-dmca.html
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/04/2253246
It's a somewhat complicated story involving software written by someone in the Air Force, but ultimately they broke the code written to control pirated software, and because the government can avoid law suits by claiming Sovereign Immunity, they can't be sued.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080804-air-force-cracks-software-carpet-bombs-dmca.html
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/04/2253246
