A series of bluegrass history lectures has become the latest victim of the bullying that is enabled by content filtering systems like YouTube’s Content ID. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbors protect websites like YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, and many… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘DMCA’
Save Firefox!
Once upon a time, there were two major browsers that virtually everyone used: Netscape and Internet Explorer, locked in a death-battle for the future of the Web. They went to enormous lengths to tempt Web publishers to optimize their sites… Read More ›
Save iTunes!
I remember the launch of iTunes in 2001. Hurrying home from the MacWorld conference in San Francisco, downloading the app, making a stack of CDs next to my Powerbook, ripping them as fast as my machine would go. Rip, Mix,… Read More ›
Standardized DRM Will Make Us Less Safe
Earlier this year, an independent security researcher named Rotem Kerner came forward to disclose critical bugs in a digital video recorder that was integrated into over 70 vendors’ CCTV-based security systems. The vulnerability is a grave one. These DVRs are… Read More ›
Pacemakers and Piracy: The Unintended Consequences of the DMCA for Medical Implants
As networked computers disappear into our bodies, working their way into hearing aids, pacemakers, and prostheses, information security has never been more urgent — or personal. A networked body needs its computers to work well, and fail even better. Graceful… Read More ›
Save Comcast!
Cable TV is a welcome addition in the homes of millions of Americans, and for more than 75 years, it’s been a force for radical transformation of the opportunities available to creators, performers, and audiences alike. But these may be… Read More ›
Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers’ home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices—customers who… Read More ›
Save Netflix!
Netflix is in terrible danger. In fact, these might be its last days. Oh, not today’s Netflix. The Netflix you’re using today is fine. It made it—got to do something daring and edgy, prove out its model, and become part… Read More ›
Interoperability and the W3C: Defending the Future from the Present
Imagine a new, disruptive company figured out a way to let hundreds of people watch a single purchased copy of a movie, even though the rightsholders who made that movie objected. The new company charged money for this service, and… Read More ›
Security Researchers: Tell the W3C To Protect Researchers Who Investigate Browsers
Security researchers: we need your help! The World Wide Web Consortium has taken the extraordinary, controversial step of standardizing DRM in the form of something called Encrypted Media Extensions, which will be part of HTML5. Because of laws like the… Read More ›