It's time again for the triennial DMCA exemption rulemaking at which the Library of Congress allows some legal circumvention of DRM. This time, the EFF stands up for the remix, universities ask for t read more » DiscussBury
Sarah Perez reports on Apple's takedown request to Bluwiki of the iPodHash open source project which reverse engineers a security hash Apple puts on an iTunes database. The EFF is countering, claimi read more » DiscussBury
Nate Anderson writes that deciding whether "there are particular classes of works as to which users are, or are likely to be, adversely affected in their ability to make noninfringing uses due to the prohibition of circumvention," is the goal here. read more » DiscussBury
"YouTube has at last responded to Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit, and it claims that Viacom is out to do nothing less than undermine DMCA safe harbor rules...." read more » DiscussBury
Google has implemented some new technology that will give copyright holders significant more power in preventing their materials from being unlawfully uploaded to YouTube. read more » DiscussBury
Ars Technica has an interesting article on Ralph Nader's consumer rights organization, Public Citizen which is battling DMCA takedown notices for consumers. read more » DiscussBury
MediaDefender has sent down takedown notices to P2P networks hosting the 700 MB file that is their private corporate emails. The P2P providers have responded with hearty laughs. This cannot end well read more » DiscussBury
