The DMCA is being used to silence researchers, computer scientists and critics.
Corporations are using it against the public. Public/College radio stations can no longer afford to webcast.
DMCA subpoenas give copyright holders more power than U.S. law enforcement agencies
WASHINGTON - Three more U.S. senators have questioned a provision in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that allows copyright holders to subpoena the names of alleged file traders without first getting a judge's permission, with one suggesting that the DMCA subpoenas give copyright holders more power than U.S. law enforcement agencies have to seek information on terrorists.
EFF publishes report on trusted computing: "Promise and Risk"
Who Controls Your Computer?
Electronic Frontier Foundation Reports on Trusted Computing
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
yesterday published a landmark report on trusted computing,
a technology designed to improve security through hardware
changes to the personal computer.
Recording Artist Moby to Record Labels: Sue ME
RIAA
9/29/2003 - New York City
so apparently the riaa are sueing one of our very own moby.com board members, liquidlevel, for file-sharing.
personally i just can't see any good in coming from punishing people for being music fans and making the effort to hear new music.
i'm almost tempted to go onto kazaa and download some of my own music, just to see if the riaa would sue me for having mp3's of my own songs on my hard-drive.
-moby
