Why EFF Supports Colorado’s Right to Repair Wheelchairs Law Wheelchairs Break Three million Americans rely on wheelchairs, which makes wheelchairs a key driver of the $50 billion Durable Medical Equipment industry. Many people depend on wheelchairs to help with the… Read More ›
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EFF to Court: Fair Use is a Right Congress Cannot Cast Aside
Copyright law and free expression have always been in tension, with the courts protecting speech from overzealous copyright claims using legal doctrines such as fair use. But in 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and since then courts… Read More ›
The Worst Timeline: A Printer Company Is Putting DRM in Paper Now
Update: This article briefly appeared with a typo that listed the manufacturing cost of printer ink at $250/oz; the correct figure is $250/gal. We regret the error and thank the eagle-eyed readers who spotted it and pointed it out on… Read More ›
Robots Have No Place Filtering Creative Content, EFF Tells U.S. Copyright Office
Software robots should not be deciding whether your creative content, whether written words, videos, photos, or music, ought to be pulled off the internet. That’s what we told the U.S. Copyright office in comments we filed February 8 arguing against… Read More ›
Inequitable Access: An Anti-Competitive Scheme by Textbook Publishers
It goes by many names, but no matter how you cut it, the new “Inclusive Access” model for college course materials is a bad deal for students. Educators are moving increasingly towards digital textbooks, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This has… Read More ›
Starve the Beast: Monopoly Power and Political Corruption
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 ›
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 ›