Twitter's announcement that it was now able to censor tweets on a country by country basis raised a lot of eyebrows. Some people were even concerned that Twitter was turning to the dark side after standing up for its users a number of times. But that wasn't true, quite the opposite. Twitter could be forced,... |
29 January 2012
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Twitter has now announced that it is able to censor tweets and content on a per-country basis. While that may sound menacing, it's actually an improvement and gives Twitter the ability to best serve its users across the globe.
Various countries have various laws, even the ones most would consider democracies th... |
27 January 2012
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked the United States Copyright office to review a number of provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and allow for users to jailbreak devices like smartphones, tablets and video game consoles.The request from the EFF comes after the same organism decided in 2010 to ... |
5 December 2011
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights advocacy group, has managed to institute some interesting exemptions to the DMCA in the US that expand on the scope of ‘fair use’ activities. Specifically, the US Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress, at the request of the EFF, have made it ... |
27 July 2010
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19 months ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation asked regulators to add jailbreaking to a list of explicit exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s anti-circumvention provisions. Today, the EFF says it is lawful to jailbreak an iPhone, after concluding that “When one jailbreaks a smartphone ... |
27 July 2010
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Popular whistleblower website Cryptome.org was forcefully shut down after Microsoft served its hosting provider Network Solution with DMCA takedown notification. The software giant's lawyers took aim at the website after it published the company's "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook."The "Global Criminal C... |
25 February 2010
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With millions of blogs under its supervision, verifying that everything that gets posted on Blogger, complies with policies or with the law can be a daunting task. Add to this the whole copyright, fair use, DMCA debacle and you've got a situation that inevitably leads to problems. After several music blogs were... |
11 February 2010
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The US District Court for Central California has reached an interesting decision in a case involving online video sharing site Veoh and Universal Music Group. The judge ruled that the site was protected from claims of copyright infringement under the “safe harbor” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyr... |
15 September 2009
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For those who don't yet know of freeyourphone.org, these guys decided to take some action. As a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world, Free Your Phone, believes that “the threat of litigation has driven consumers un... |
17 February 2009
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A legal representative from the EFF, going by the name of Fred von Lohmann, says that Apple has filed new comments with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA, stating that jailbreaking your iPhone and iPod constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation.9to5Mac quotes the EFF as saying that “App... |
16 February 2009
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Reportedly, Apple has just learned that Psystar Corp. broke the anti-piracy defenses that Apple uses to lock OS X to its Macs. According to the updated filing dating Nov. 26, Psystar violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by dodging copy-protection technologies employed by Apple to tie OS X to its... |
1 December 2008
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