After eighteen years, we may finally see real reform to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s unconstitutional pro-DRM provisions. But we need your help. In enacting the “anti-circumvention” provisions of the DMCA, Congress ostensibly intended to stop copyright “pirates” from defeating… Read More ›
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Don’t Hide DRM in a Security Update
HP Promises to Restore Printers’ Functionality, But Questions Remain Over 10,000 of you have joined EFF in calling on HP to make amends for its self-destructing printers in the past few days. Looks like we got the company’s attention: today,… Read More ›
What HP Must Do to Make Amends for its Self-Destructing Printers
Tell HP: Say No to DRM. Dion Weisler President and CEO HP Inc. 1501 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 September 26, 2016 Dear Mr. Weisler, I write to you today on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a… Read More ›
Copyright Loophole Could Undermine Important Consumer Protection Bill
The Consumer Review Fairness Act Is a Noble Bill but Could Leave the Door Open for Copyright Abuse There’s a bill making its way through Congress that would protect consumers’ freedom of speech by limiting unfair form contracts. The Consumer… Read More ›
HTML standardization group calls on W3C to protect security researchers from DRM
The World Wide Web Consortium has embarked upon an ill-advised project to standardize Digital Rights Management (DRM) for video at the behest of companies like Netflix; in so doing, they are, for the first time, making a standard whose implementations… Read More ›
Analog: The Last Defense Against DRM
UPDATE (9/8/16): An earlier version of this blog post incorrectly suggested that no authorized audio devices or connectors that used the Lightning port existed prior to yesterday’s announcement. It also implied that the only way to achieve lossless sound quality… Read More ›
DRM: You have the right to know what you’re buying!
Today, the EFF and a coalition of organizations and individuals asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to explore fair labeling rules that would require retailers to warn you when the products you buy come locked down by DRM (“Digital… Read More ›
EFF at the Eleventh Hope
Last weekend EFF took part in the Eleventh Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in New York City and got to meet so many of our wonderful supporters. We’ve collected the HOPE talks given by EFF staff below, with the… Read More ›
Research and Remixes the Law Won’t Allow
Some day, your life may depend on the work of a security researcher. Whether it’s a simple malfunction in a piece of computerized medical equipment or a malicious compromise of your networked car, it’s critically important that people working in… Read More ›
Section 1201 of the DMCA Cannot Pass Constitutional Scrutiny
Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act forbids a wide range of speech, from remix videos that rely upon circumvention, to academic security research, to publication of software that can help repair your car or back up your favorite… Read More ›