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Deeplinks Blog by Chris Palmer | October 13, 2004

Content Control - How to Ward Off Zombies Without Undue Collateral Damage

EFF has been studying various methods for content control (censorship, spam blocking, detecting copyright infringement, etc.). There are two main challenges: identifying content reliably, and avoiding collateral damage.

Randal Schwartz of Perl fame shows off a nifty trick you can do with everyone's favorite operating system (OS), OpenBSD:...

Press Release | October 12, 2004

EFF Challenges Secret Government Order to Shut Down Media Websites

Seizure of Servers Hosting Indymedia Websites Violates the First Amendment San Francisco, CA -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is representing a coalition of independent Internet journalists whose websites were shut down on Thursday, October 7, when their servers were seized by the FBI. The two servers, which were located...

Press Release | October 12, 2004

In File-Sharing Witchhunts, RIAA Is Foiled Again

Washington, DC - Today, the Supreme Court denied a request by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to hear its appeal of a lower court decision that Internet service providers (ISPs) do not have to hand over the names of people suspected of copyright infringement. The case grows...

Deeplinks Blog by Donna Wentworth | October 12, 2004

No "Fishing License" for the RIAA

This just in: the Supreme Court has denied cert in RIAA v. Verizon, the case in which the recording industry initially won the right to unmask an anonymous KaZaA user with a special non-judicial, PATRIOT Act-like subpoena under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DC Circuit...

Press Release | October 8, 2004

Servers in UK Containing Indymedia Websites Seized by Government

United Kingdom - Acting under a court order, Texas-based web hosting company Rackspace Managed Hosting handed over two UK-based servers containing Indymedia websites to government agents yesterday morning. Indymedia is a collective of online journalists who maintain a network of independent news websites. The order was apparently issued by a...

Press Release | October 8, 2004

Entertainment Giants Push Supreme Court to Rewrite Copyright Law

Washington, DC - A group of 25 entertainment companies filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court today, asking the Court to rewrite copyright law principles that establish when high-tech companies can be held liable for the copyright infringements of their customers. The petition asks the Supreme Court...

Deeplinks Blog by Fred von Lohmann | October 8, 2004

Big Media Attacks Betamax in Court

The entertainment industry today filed its petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to overturn the Ninth Circuit's ruling in MGM v. Grokster.
The brief makes two things clear.
First, the entertainment industry is plainly mounting a frontal attack on the Betamax doctrine, seeking a radical...

Deeplinks Blog by Annalee Newitz | October 6, 2004

A Government-Mandated Backdoor for Every Network

That's what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) promises if the FBI gets its way.
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) was passed in 1994 to make it easier for the feds to listen in to everyone's phone calls. The law forced phone companies to design their...

Deeplinks Blog by Donna Wentworth | October 5, 2004

Join EFF for "Resisting Government Secrecy in a Time of Terrorism," Oct. 8-9

EFF is a proud co-sponsor of "Resisting Government Secrecy in a Time of Terrorism," a two-day conference taking place this Friday, Oct. 8th, and Saturday, Oct. 9th, at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
The conference, presented by the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC), features...

Press Release | October 5, 2004

Court to Rehear Email Privacy Case

Boston, MA - The First Circuit Court of Appeals decided today to rehear argument in a case that could have a profound effect on email privacy. Last month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, US v. Councilman, urging such a rehearing. In...

Press Release | October 5, 2004

EFF, Public Interest Groups Challenge Legality of the Broadcast Flag

Lawsuit Questions FCC's Authority to Mandate Copy Protection on All Hardware That Receives Digital TV Signals Washington, DC - When the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) broadcast flag mandate goes into effect next year, it will be unlawful to sell devices that can tune in digital television without imposing copy protection...

Deeplinks Blog by Donna Wentworth | October 5, 2004

ACLU & Doe v. Ashcroft - the Good Bits

Last week brought an extraordinary victory for privacy and civil liberties: a federal district court struck down a key power under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the USA PATRIOT Act. Specifically, US District Court Judge Victor Marrero ruled that "National Security Letters" (NSLs) violate the Constitution.
...

Press Release | October 4, 2004

WIPO Announces Plans to Support Public Domain, Open Source

Geneva - The United Nation's (UN) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has adopted a "development agenda" that acknowledges the need for balance in worldwide policy on trademark, copyright, and patents. In the past, WIPO has been roundly resistant to attempts to balance the interests of copyright holders, who make up...

Press Release | October 4, 2004

California Ruling Makes Accurate Recount on E-voting Machines Impossible

Riverside, California - A superior court in a Riverside County, California ruled last week that the local registrar of voters does not have to hand over backup data from e-voting machines to verify the results of a recount. Linda Soubirous, a Republican board of supervisors candidate, requested the data...

Press Release | September 30, 2004

Dangerous Ruling Menaces Rights of Free Software Programmers

Contract and Copyright Trump Fair Use and Competition in BnetD Case St. Louis - Fair use was dealt a harsh blow today in a Federal Court decision that held that programmers are not allowed to create free software designed to work with commercial products. At issue in the case...

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Content Control - How to Ward Off Zombies Without Undue Collateral Damage

EFF Challenges Secret Government Order to Shut Down Media Websites

In File-Sharing Witchhunts, RIAA Is Foiled Again

No "Fishing License" for the RIAA

Servers in UK Containing Indymedia Websites Seized by Government

Entertainment Giants Push Supreme Court to Rewrite Copyright Law

Big Media Attacks Betamax in Court

A Government-Mandated Backdoor for Every Network

Join EFF for "Resisting Government Secrecy in a Time of Terrorism," Oct. 8-9

Court to Rehear Email Privacy Case

EFF, Public Interest Groups Challenge Legality of the Broadcast Flag

ACLU & Doe v. Ashcroft - the Good Bits

WIPO Announces Plans to Support Public Domain, Open Source

California Ruling Makes Accurate Recount on E-voting Machines Impossible

Dangerous Ruling Menaces Rights of Free Software Programmers

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