Docket of the Living Dead In 2017, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai – a former Verizon lawyer appointed by Donald Trump – announced his intention to dismantle the Commission’s hard-won 2015 Network Neutrality regulation. The 2015 order owed its… Read More ›
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Utilities Governed Like Empires
Believe the hype After decades of hype, it’s only natural for your eyes to skate over corporate mission-statements without stopping to take note of them, but when it comes to ending your relationship with them, tech giants’ stated goals take… Read More ›
Let’s Stand Up for Home Hacking and Repair
Let’s tell the Copyright Office that it’s not a crime to modify or repair your own devices. Every three years, the Copyright Office holds a rulemaking process where it grants the public permission to bypass digital locks for lawful purposes…. Read More ›
GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA
GitHub recently reinstated the repository for youtube-dl, a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub had taken down the repository last month after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) abused the… Read More ›
RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos
“youtube-dl” is a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub recently took down youtube-dl’s code repository at the behest of the Recording Industry Association of America, potentially stopping many thousands of users, and other programs… Read More ›
The Github youtube-dl Takedown Isn't Just a Problem of American Law
The video downloading utility youtube-dl, like other large open source projects, accepts contributions from all around the globe. It is used practically wherever there’s an Internet connection. It’s especially shocking, therefore, when what looks like a domestic legal spat–involving a… Read More ›
Tell Us How You Want to Modify and Repair the Devices in Your Life
Have you tried modifying, repairing, or diagnosing a product but bumped into encryption, a password requirement, or some other technological roadblock that got in the way? EFF wants your stories to help us fight for your right to get around… Read More ›
Open Education and Artificial Scarcity in Hard Times
The sudden move to remote education by universities this year has forced the inevitable: the move to an online education. While most universities won’t be fully remote, having course materials online was already becoming the norm before the COVID-19 pandemic,… Read More ›
Human Rights and TPMs: Lessons from 22 Years of the U.S. DMCA
Introduction In 1998, Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a sweeping overhaul of U.S. copyright law notionally designed to update the system for the digital era. Though the DMCA contains many controversial sections, one of the most… Read More ›
Apple’s Response to HEY Showcases What’s Most Broken About the Apple App Store
Basecamp’s new paid email service, HEY, has been making headlines recently in a very public fight with Apple over their App Store terms of service. Just as the service was launching, the HEY developers found the new release of the… Read More ›