It's what our corporate overlords and their pet politicians want, and they ain't gonna stop fighting until George Orwell spins in his grave, and prolly not even then.

It is even more perverse.

There is a right to private copying, you pay additional fees for media such as CDs, DVDs and USB sticks, but it is illegal to circumvent copy protection for copying.

There's even a filter on youtube for searching for 'creative commons' content. This ruling seems to make it very difficult to download that content (explicitly intended to be shared and remixed) and illegal to work on software that makes it easier.

worse, it's about making download tools illegal, even if the download itself is legitimate.