Have you ever bought music, movies, games, ebooks, or gadgets, only to discover later that the product had been deliberately limited with Digital Rights Management? We want to hear from you! We’re preparing a petition to a government agency on… Read More ›
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Standards Are Only Open If They Protect Security and Interoperability
The Open Source Initiative, a nonprofit that certifies open source licenses, has adopted an important principle about standards, DRM, and openness, and just in time, too. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which makes the core standards that the Internet… Read More ›
Perfect 10 and the RIAA Still Trying to Rewrite Copyright to Give Hollywood A Veto Right Over Innovation: EFF Files Brief In Support of Giganews and Sound Copyright Policy
Some people just never learn. For decades, porn purveyor Perfect 10 has been fighting a losing battle to deputize service providers to police potentially infringing uses of its works. Indeed, at this point Perfect 10 spends far more time on… Read More ›
Apple Fight Could Lead To “Virtually Limitless” Surveillance Powers, Judge Warns
At stake in Apple’s fight against government orders to break open locked iPhones could be the legal authorization for “virtually limitless” surveillance under the Internet of Things, according to a federal judge’s order rejecting a government request in a New… Read More ›
Content ID and the Rise of the Machines
Copyright Bots Aren’t Always Bad, But They Shouldn’t Be in Charge In 2007, Google built Content ID, a technology that lets rightsholders submit large databases of video and audio fingerprints and have YouTube continually scan new uploads for potential matches… Read More ›
“Notice-and-Stay-Down” Is Really “Filter-Everything”
The Proposal Is Unfair to Both Users and Media Platforms There’s a debate happening right now over copyright bots, programs that social media websites use to scan users’ uploads for potential copyright infringement. A few powerful lobbyists want copyright law… Read More ›
Digital Freedom Depends on the Right to Tinker
One of the most crucial issues in the fight for digital freedom is the question of who will control the hardware that you have in your home, in your pocket, or in your own body. Have you ever been frustrated… Read More ›
You Can’t Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs DRM, Round Two
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the nonprofit body that maintains the Web’s core standards, made a terrible mistake in 2013: they decided to add DRM—the digital locks that train your computer to say “I can’t let you do that,… Read More ›