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Submitted by Donald Robertson on February 27, 2015 - 10:58am
Topic:
dmca
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has one particularly draconian measure criminalizing the circumvention of digital restrictions management (DRM). This section, which appears in law as 17 U.S.C §1201 states that "[n]o person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work". This facet of the law completely violates users' rights to their own devices, and their legitimate use rights to copyrighted works.
●Read more about In DMCA anti-circumvention fight, we don't want exemptions, we want justice
●Donald Robertson's blog
Submitted by John Sullivan on July 30, 2009 - 2:33pm
Topic:
apple
dmca
iphone
drugs
Apple's lawyers, led by David L. Hayes of Fenwick & West LLP, claimed
in comments submitted to the US Copyright
Office
that the Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) system on the iPhone is
necessary to combat drug dealers, safeguard the cell phone network,
and prevent you from hurting yourself.
●Read more about Apple says you can't have freedom because you might be clumsy, evil, and a drug dealer
●John Sullivan's blog
Submitted by Matt Lee on December 23, 2008 - 12:42pm
Topic:
dmca
adobe
As we mentioned briefly yesterday -- we should never forget that Adobe
used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to have a Russian programmer, Dmitry Sklyarov, arrested and
imprisoned. His "crime"? Distributing a product designed to remove
locks from eBooks so that they could be fully used like regular books.
●Read more about Day 18 -- DMCA
●Matt Lee's blog
Submitted by Gregory Heller on March 1, 2007 - 8:27am
Topic:
drm
RIAA
students
dmca
The RIAA has announced that they plan to sue more students by sending letters to 13 colleges and universities. They plan to send the schools lists of IP addresses and want the schools to turn over the names of the students and pass the notice of intent to sue on to the students. All this before a suit or subpoena has been filed.
●Read more about RIAA Announces Plans to Sue More College Students
●Gregory Heller's blog
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