The latest episode of the technology podcast Reply All features an excellent summary of some of the issues with the World Wide Web Consortium’s current project to create a standard for restricting the use of videos on the web; we’ve… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘DRM’
Indefensible: the W3C says companies should get to decide when and how security researchers reveal defects in browsers
The World Wide Web Consortium has just signaled its intention to deliberately create legal jeopardy for security researchers who reveal defects in its members’ products, unless the security researchers get the approval of its members prior to revealing the embarrassing… Read More ›
Won't someone please think of the bikers?
If there’s anything more remarkable than the fact that five states are debating “Right to Repair” bills that make it legal for you to fix your own property, it’s that these bills are needed in the first place. Can it… Read More ›
The World Wide Web Consortium at a Crossroads: Arms-Dealers or Standards-Setters?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a hard decision to make: a coalition including the world’s top research institutions; organizations supporting blind users on three continents; security firms; blockchain startups; browser vendors and user rights groups have asked it… Read More ›
Tell the Copyright Office: Copyright Law Shouldn't Punish Research and Repair
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 ›
Tell HP: Still a long way to go to make up for breaking our printers
Last Monday, we published our open letter to Hewlett-Packard CEO Dion Weisler, and more than 10,000 of you promptly stepped up to sign it, telling the company that you agree that it is absolutely unacceptable for a company to send… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›