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- Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices
- Mom, EFF fight back over take-down noticesIf Universal wins, America is doomedUniversal absolutely must not win this. It is the thin end of a [i]very[/i] dangerous wedge - will we be allowed to sing along to our ipods in the street, or in family videos? What about humming the tunes...
- Tags: EFF fight back, RIAA, member company, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices
- This is what I imagine: some technoslaves or computer software constantly peruses YouTube looking for infringements. It finds them and the music companies send YT an almost daily list of take-down notices per the DMCA. YouTube takes down. Problem being everything gets taken down...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Takedown, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- EFF: Bill treats hackers as terrorists
- EFF: Bill treats hackers as terroristsI think execution is a good remedy.I think that spammers, most hackers, virus and other malware writers should be executed. They are ECONOMIC TERRORISTS. The millions of hours spent cleaning in-boxes, the millions of dollars spent on anti-malware products, the millions of dollars and hours...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, hacker, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters
- Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...
- Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Comcast traffic management issue before FCC
- Today is the deadline for the FCC call for comments on the Comcast traffic management case brought about by a formal complaint from the Free Press and Public Knowledge. As a former network engineer who designed networks and servers and as someone who has written extensively on these matters, I...
- Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, Packet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Problem, Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, DOCSIS, Network Management, BitTorrent Seeder, Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Why metered Internet is a really bad idea
- The above image from Lauren Weinstein's blog shows why metered Internet is a really bad idea and obnoxious. It shows Canadian ISP Rogers Internet altering web pages to warn you when you go over 75% of your 75GB cap. I checked on the Rogers website for...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Plan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Fear Factor in BitTorrent debate
- In arguing the monopolists' case against net neutrality today, our own George Ou plays a version of Fear Factor. The slimy bug we're supposed to gag on is the idea of a "metered Internet," which the EFF and other net neutrality proponents have offered as an alternative...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Net Neutrality, Government, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- EFF wants to saddle you with metered Internet service
- EFF wants to saddle you with metered Internet serviceIndeed. Translation is not forgery.It's just... translation. Using NAT as an example of forgery is like using a French Translation of "The Old Man and The Sea" as a forgery of Hemingway's works.AbsolutelyMy issue with Comcast has nothing to do with the...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Telecom & Utilities, Internet service, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Internet, Comcast Corp., forgery
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- EFF wants to saddle you with metered Internet service
- Updated 12/8/2007 - The EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation last week publicly joined Free Press and Public Knowledge in recommending a metered Internet service as the alternative to Comcast's BitTorrent throttling. The extremist "Net Neutrality" crowd that wants to regulate the Internet with bans on per-user charges/contracts for Enhanced QoS are...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Problem, Internet Service Provider, DOCSIS, Internet Service, ACL, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Whistleblower calls on Congress
- Mark Klein, 62, the AT&T whistleblower at the heart of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's suit against the phone company, spent the day in Washington trying to convince senators and congressmen not to hand away citizens' rights to sue. At the urging of the White House Congress is...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. Congress, AT&T Corp., Mr., Times, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- The importance of open source in a legal process
- The open source process does not just apply to software. It can also apply to the law. This is especially true in the area of patent law, where open source has an ideological difference with the proprietary world. This difference is often sorted out...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Journalism, Idea, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- In the trenches with Live Web law at EFF's Bootcamp
- In the trenches with Live Web law at EFF's BootcampLegal Dept is now part of your communication team.."I am hard pressed to conceive of a Web-based communication platform, community, or business model that doesn’t need this kind of overview." Is anybody listening too Ms Howell???Now if we can...
- Tags: Channel management, Live Web, Bootcamp, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
- Fined $222,000 Jammie Thomas' MySpace friends send $957 and counting: and she says "WE'LL APPEAL!!"
- Fined $222,000 Jammie Thomas' MySpace friends send $957 and counting: and she says "WE'LL APPEAL!!"Are you aware of the concept of "burden of proof"I'm sure you are as you quite intellegent.The problem with this case is that the plantiffs didn't have to meet any burden of proof that she was...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- In the trenches with Live Web law at EFF's Bootcamp
- If you're doing business on the Live Web, get thee this Wednesday, October 10, to EFF's Bootcamp, "a one-day session for Web 2.0 workers on user generated content:" Does your interactive company have to contend with the maze of laws dealing with user privacy and publishing user...
- Tags: Web, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Verdict in filesharing suit: $220,000
- Standing up to RIAA blackmail isn't looking like such a great idea for Jammie Thomas today. After refusing to settle and taking the matter to trial, Thomas was socked with a $220,000 judgment Thursday. While under copyright law, the jury could have found her liable for...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, RIAA, Lawyer, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- EFF sues DOJ for lobbying data
- EFF sues DOJ for lobbying dataResponse should be interestingAfter all, usually the last thing that either lobbyists or the lobbied want is for the details of the lobbying to be public knowledge. The major difference between old-fashioned petitioning and modern lobbying is that petitions are circulated and submitted in...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- EFF sues DOJ for lobbying data
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Lawsuit against the Department of Justice to obtain records on telecom lobbying efforts, Ars Technica reports. EFF is seeking documentation of lobbying around amendments to the FISA law and the granting of immunity for surveillance activities. What connections and...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Telecommunications Company, Government, U.S. Department Of Justice, Bush Administration, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- FBI further abused security letters by requesting 'communities of interest'
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation reveals that FBI abuses of "exigent circumstances" letters not only illegally sought information on individual customers but also were used to obtain information on people they frequently called. A Freedom of Information Act request from EFF uncovered the new revelations, staff lawyer Kurt Opsahl...
- Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Letter, U.S. Department Of Justice, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- EXCLUSIVE: newly released FBI document reveals phone intercept preparation procedures
- ELSUR= Electronic Surveillance. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just published a motherlode of technology-related national security documents it has obtained via a series of Freedom of Information Act requests. I've been poring over these documents. One especially caught my eye....
- Tags: Phone, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Procedure, FBI, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- EFF filing brief in TorrentSpy case
- EFF filing brief in TorrentSpy caseM$ and HARDWARE DRMI took a colleague of yours to task over the existence of HARDWARE DRM in Vista. He claimed " there's no such animal ". I showed him MICROSOFTS' OWN SPECIFICATIONS on HARDWARE DRM. The significance here is obvious: The MPAA/RIAA/LEGAL MAFIA claims...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware DRM, Microsoft Corp., TorrentSpy, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-06-25
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