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Government officials are really scared of changing the status quo. They're really afraid that if they get rid of anti-circumvention laws, that they'll become a pariah state. In the past that probably would have been true. The US would have thrown its weight around, and Europe would have fallen in line and boycotted whoever it was. Many countries also have a lot of Hollywood productions made there. The major Hollywood studios care about anti-circumvention because they think it guarantees their profits. So, if these countries scaled back anti-circumvention, Hollywood would probably throw a fit and cut them off too. Even if the economic impact of getting rid of anti-circumvention were a huge positive, Hollywood has a big cultural impact worldwide.
I'd like to see it happen, but I think the most likely scenario is that a country that already doesn't fully respect US copyright laws, like Switzerland or Singapore, might take an additional step and stop respecting anti-circumvention.