Friday, February 6, 2015
How the DMCA criminalized DIY farm equipment repairKyle Wiens, writing at Wired: Manufacturers have every legal right to put a password or an encryption over the tECU. Owners, on the other hand, don’t have the legal right to break the digital lock over their own equipment. The Digital Millennium …Saturday, August 10, 2013
Legislative failure to define essential terms The definition of terms essential to the application of a law is the most basic requirement for competent lawmaking. Sometimes one or more terms are appropriately defined in an open way, to provide flexibility in the application of a law. This is not one …Tuesday, March 12, 2013
EFF will represent targets of copyright troll Prenda LawCopyright trolls sue lots of people to extract settlements from those who can’t afford to litigate in the face of potentially massive statutory damages. Their claims are often facially lacking in merit and instead leverage intimidation and …Thursday, December 6, 2012
Drones in our backyardsThe Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Jennifer Lynch explains how EFF got data on active drones over US soil. I’m not prone to slippery slope arguments, but with the volume of cyberattacks directed at the US each year, it’s not ridiculous to suggest that our drones may be …Friday, November 9, 2012
EFF’s pre-emptive prior art defense of 3D printingIt’s a great idea, and I hope it yields some useful results.