The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will consider adopting a DRM non-aggression covenant at its Advisory Committee meeting in Boston next week. EFF has attended several of these meetings before as a W3C member, always with the intent to persuade… Read More ›
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Tell Us Your DRM Horror Stories about Ebooks, Games, Music, Movies and the Internet of Things!
Have you ever bought music, movies, games, ebooks, or gadgets, only to discover later that the product had been deliberately limited with Digital Rights Management? We want to hear from you! We’re preparing a petition to a government agency on… Read More ›
Standards Are Only Open If They Protect Security and Interoperability
The Open Source Initiative, a nonprofit that certifies open source licenses, has adopted an important principle about standards, DRM, and openness, and just in time, too. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which makes the core standards that the Internet… Read More ›
Apple Fight Could Lead To “Virtually Limitless” Surveillance Powers, Judge Warns
At stake in Apple’s fight against government orders to break open locked iPhones could be the legal authorization for “virtually limitless” surveillance under the Internet of Things, according to a federal judge’s order rejecting a government request in a New… Read More ›
Who’s Driving This Thing? Anti-DRM Victories and Milestones: 2015 in Review
Sometimes news events make your point better than you ever could. That was the case this year as we completed the triennial rulemaking cycle of requesting exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA)’s restrictions on circumventing DRM. The process… Read More ›