Monday, July 26th, 2010
The Electronic Frontier Foundation finally succeeded at something: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now, could have been sued for their [...]
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
When will politicians even discuss or debate any antitrust or anti-racketeering violations by this industry? So many violations are obvious, and there’s that “way they do business” (including lobbying for the right to hack and possibly doing it anyway) Stats the MAFIAA doesn’t want you to know about: 1. Child abduction: the fine is only [...]
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