An even bigger mistake by the DMCA's drafters was to make the definition of circumvention so broad that it could be applied to practically any piece of equipment containing a digital controller whether a car, a washing machine or a combine harvester even when no copyright infringement was involved.
The Patriot Act, in particular, has allowed more government spying than even its drafters realised.For example, before Mr Snowden's whistleblowing, few realised that Section 215 of the Patriot Act had a secret legal interpretation which justified the collection of "metadata" of phone calls made by hundreds of millions of Americans.
Unfortunately, the act's drafters failed to appreciate the speed with which digital technology moves.
The 55 drafters included 15 Sunni Arabs, along with a further ten Sunni Arab "consultants", recruited in the hope of bringing more Sunnis into peaceful politics and undercutting the insurgents.
They complained (rightly) that it failed to take proper account of the benefits of immigration and exaggerated the costs.Most important, argued Marco Rubio, one of the eight drafters of the bill and the son of working-class Cuban immigrants, it implied that there would be little upward mobility for the bill's new-minted citizens a view his own elevation to the Senate suggests is too pessimistic.
Mr Gong says the drafters have added provisions on the protection of state property.
Sunni Arabs are now divided between yes, no and boycott camps, so the rejectionists seem less likely to muster the necessary two-thirds majority in at least three provinces to stymie the new constitution.So the last-ditch amendments may give Iraq's constitutional drafters more time to try pulling more Sunnis back into peaceful politics and away from the insurgency.
The drafters of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and similar provisions in other documents such as the European Convention on Human Rights, may not have anticipated the horrific events of September 11th but they did provide for them.
The MDGs at least identified priorities and chivvied along countries that failed to live up to their promises; a set of 169 commandments means, in practice, no priorities at all.By establishing myriad of top-down targets, the SDG drafters also flout one of the most important lessons of development: that everywhere is different.
Moreover, the powers of a Kurdish region, however delineated, within a federal Iraqi state are still to be decided, and will be fiercely debated by the constitutional drafters chosen by the national parliament that is to emerge after this month's election.For now, the Kurds are revelling in their autonomy.
Mr Mackay takes the same view as the drafters of the Swedish law that most prostitution is not voluntary, and most sex workers are victims who must be helped to exit the profession.
