Time and again, we've seen the DMCA takedown process abused to censor legitimate speech. It's not everyday that one of these stories ends with a quote like this:
"I would like to make it clear that I regret filing DMCA claims in this case, because the...

EFF's audio segment, Line Noise, returns with a visit to the Consumer Electronics Show. Activist Derek Slater takes a look at the latest gadgets, with an eye to how the market has been affected by the shifting sands of copyright law.
As ever, you can hear this episode...

The new Congress has barely begun, but the major record labels are already up to their old tricks.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has re-introduced the PERFORM Act, a backdoor assault on your right to record off the radio. Satellite and digital radio stations as well as Internet webcasters would have...

Way back in 1996, Congress directed the FCC to foster useful, competitive alternatives to cable providers' proprietary set-top boxes. As we saw at CES, several alternatives that rely on CableCARD technology are finally coming to market, and now the FCC has taken another step towards putting them on a...

Sununu: FCC Tech Mandates Must Be BannedRepublican Senator proposes law that would stop broadcast,
audio flags in their tracks.
How to Save the ClassicsIf libraries dump the classics, the real solution is the
public domain.
Sealand for SaleOne used crypto-utopia, going cheap.
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If you want to liberate your media from its DRM chains without circumventing them, you are increasingly dependent on the analog hole (all your digital outputs are belong to Hollywood, right?).
We've already talked up the Neuros MPEG4 Recorder on this blog, and at CES we found a...

Great gadgets for your music collection are all over CES: servers that stream to devices throughout your house, slick portable players and music cell phones, place-shifting software that lets you -- and your friends -- hear your collection from any computer, and much more. But if you want to...