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Copyright Office Should Right DMCA Wrongs in Rulemaking

Linux Today  Wed, 12/03/2008 - 06:33

Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed three exemption requests with the U.S.

Copyright Office today aimed at protecting the important work of video remix artists, iPhone owners, and cell phone recyclers from legal threats under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)."


 

EFF to Fight Against Telecom Immunity in Tuesday Hearing

Linux Today  Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:34

Electronic Frontier Foundation: "On Tuesday, December 2, at 10 a.m., the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will challenge the constitutionality of a federal law aimed at granting immunity to telecommunications companies participating in illegal domestic surveillance."


 

Apple Slammed for Killing Open-Source iTunes

Linux Today  Wed, 11/26/2008 - 11:03

PC Advisor: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has criticised Apple's attempt to quash efforts to help the latest iPods and iPhones work with non-Apple software such as the Linux operating system."


 

Bush Signs Draconian Anti-Piracy Law

TorrentFreak  Tue, 10/14/2008 - 01:23

Over in California, champagne corks are popping. In the offices of the MPAA and RIAA, lawyers turned lobbyists are dancing jigs.

In houses all around the US however, people are left dumbfounded by the passage of a bill based on appeasement to big money, at a time when the country is in economic turmoil.


 

Bush Signs Draconian Anti-Piracy Law

TorrentFreak  Tue, 10/14/2008 - 01:23

Over in California, champagne corks are popping. In the offices of the MPAA and RIAA, lawyers turned lobbyists are dancing jigs.

In houses all around the US however, people are left dumbfounded by the passage of a bill based on appeasement to big money, at a time when the country is in economic turmoil.


 

Why 2 to the power of 43,112,609 - 1 = $100,000 for prime number...

guardian.co.uk Technology  Sun, 09/28/2008 - 18:01

Computer scientists are hoping to claim a $100,000 prize after discovering the largest known prime number. At 12,978,189 digits long, it would take the best part of two and a half months to write out by hand.

Prime numbers, which can only be divided by one and themselves, have long fascinated mathematicians as the building blocks of other numbers.

They are now central to techniques used to encrypt data such as credit card details as they are sent around the internet.


 

EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney to Stop ...

Linux Today  Fri, 09/19/2008 - 07:02

Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The five individual plaintiffs are also suing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and other individuals who ordered or participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance."


 

EFF to sue Bush and cronies over telecom spying

Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 09/18/2008 - 16:30

The president has decreed that they can't sue the phone companies over illegal spying on Americans, so the Electronic Frontier Foundation today will announce a class-action suit in behalf of AT&T customers against Bush, Cheney, the NSA and others "who ordered or participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance."


 

EFF: MySpace suicide charges a threat to free speech

Digg / Tech Industry News  Tue, 08/05/2008 - 19:00

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for Democracy and Technology, Public Citizen, and a group of 14 law professors have filed an amicus brief in the case against a mother who allegedly harassed a teenager on MySpace, driving the girl to suicide.

The groups argue that, while the events were tragic, holding the mom criminally responsible could