aibohack.com
Aibo Custom Code Pulled from Website, Aibo Owners Biting Mad at Sony, Aibo-Life: Open Letter to Sony, AiboPet's Reborn Site, Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: No New Tricks for , GoPetition: Get aibohack.com Back Online, Pet Robot Owners Mad at Sony for Challenging Free , Robotics Enthusiast Forced to Pull Aibo-altering C, Sony Shoos Away Robot-dog Hackers, Sony Tightens Leash on Its Robotic Dog
bnetd
Analysis of BNETD and Blizzard, Battle.net Emulation FAQ, Battle.net Goes to War, Blizzard Petition, Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project, Blizzard, Bnetd Respond on Bnetd Shutdown, Bnetd Fights Back with Support of EFF, Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: Bnetd Project, DMCA Used to Shut Down Bnetd Project, EFF Blizzard v. bnetd Archive
Edward Felten et al v. RIAA et al
News and Media, EFF Topics: Felten, et al., v. RIAA, et al., Reading Between the Lines: Lessons from the SDMI C, The Register - RIAA Challenges SDMI Attack
Google Erasure of Anti-Scientology Links
Church of Scientology simply defended copyrights, Church of Scientology Wields the DMCA, Google Remo, Church v. Google, Round 2, Church v. Google: How the Church of Scientology is, Cult Forces Google to Remove Critical Links, DMCA Used to Remove Scientology Critics from Googl, FACTNet: Google, Censorship and Scientology?, Google Asked to Delist Scientology Critics, Google Censored by the Church of Scientology and t, Google Censors Scientology Critics
Internet Radio
East Bay Express - Radio Free Usurp, Rice University - Save Our Streams, TechTV - New Law Could Kill Internet Radio
USA v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov
News and Media, Boston "Free Dmitry" protest site, First Amendment - Void Where Prohibited, Free Dmitry San Jose Rally, Free Dmitry Sklyarov, free-sklyarov Mailing List, Intellectual Property: DMCA: U.S. v. Elcomsoft, Planet eBook: Index of US v. Sklyarov and DMCA-rel
321 Studios Plays It Safe Against the DMCA
"CNet reports on a request by 321 Studios to have it legally declared that their DVD Copy Plus software doesn't violate the DCMA." Reader discussion. [Slashdot]
Anti-DMCA Website, The
Information about free speech, the DMCA and you. News, mailing list, cases, quotes, and links.
Association of Research Libraries - Satellite Tele
Teleconference "Copyright in the New Millennium" describes the copyright laws, and discusses the implications for libraries, archives, and educational institutions as they attempt to comply.
CNet - Apple: Burn DVDs--and We'll Burn You
Article on Apple using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent its customers from burning DVDs on external drives using iDVD software.
CNET News - Ruling Sounds Sour Note for Record Ind
A court decision hands a major setback to the RIAA's legal tactics for tracking down and suing alleged file traders.
Digital Future Coalition: DMCA
Timeline for the DMCA from July 1997 - October 1998.
DMCA Protection at U.S. Border
"U.S. Customs officials have blocked shipments from one of the largest online video game retailers, hoping to stop the import of products that may run afoul of federal copyright protections." By Brad King. [Wired]
DMCA Protects AOL From Harlan Ellison Lawsuit
"A federal court ruling last week suggests that copyright owners will find one of computing's oldest peer-to-peer networks, UseNet, much harder to tame than Napster." By Steven Bonisteel. [Newsbytes]
EFF "Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)&
Legal documents, releases, and information regarding the DMCA.
Illegal Art
Online exhibition exploring the impact of copyright law on free expression.
kuro5hin: DMCA suspends free speech, another way!
Companies are now using the DMCA notice and safe harbor provisions to shut down websites that are critical of them.
Legal Protection Turns Service Providers Into Spee
Free speech advocates say that the DMCA is an invitation to abuse by powerful copyright holders. [Associated Press]
MacOPINION: A Copyright Fable
Short fiction about a DMCA future by Marc Zeedar.
New Anti-Circumvention Rulemaking Coming Soon
"Copyright regulators are considering a rare public comment process on the controversial DMCA law." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
NewsForge: Does this article violate the DMCA?
Editorial by Grant Gross about how the RIAA's attempt to suppress Professor Felten's SDMI paper uses the DMCA to erode free speech.
On Trial: Digital Copyright Law
"The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law." By Declan McCullagh. [CNet]
Open Law
Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. OpenLaw assisted in the DeCSS case against 2600 (NYC) from 2/2000 to present. Many of the OpenLaw participants were active in the Free Dmitry case.
Poorly laid plans go astray
Calls for the repeal of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Big corporations wield the DMCA as a legal threat. The law is tilted so that a defense would likely be ruinous. [The Japan Times]
Red Hat Fights the DMCA
"Red Hat has struck a small blow against the DMCA, by publishing a security patch which can only be explained fully to people who are not within US jurisdiction." By John Lettice. [Register USA]
Register: Linux Update Withholds Security Info on
"Citing a controversial U.S. copyright law, a top Linux developer announced this week that Americans would not be given details about the security fixes in an update to the open source operating system, a first for a software development community that prides itself on transparency." By Kevin Poulsen.
Salon - Replay It Again, Sam
Effects and reactions from Microsoft selling a new computer that will make trading TV shows as easy as using Napster.
Salon: Fingered by the movie cops
Under today's copyright laws, you are guilty until proven innocent. I know -- it happened to me. By Amita Guha.
Salon: No free speech for animal rights Web sites
A British medical research firm hammers its online opponents, courtesy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. By Katharine Mieszkowski.
Security Warning Draws DMCA Threat
"Hewlett Packard has found a new club to use to pound researchers who unearth flaws in the company's software: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act." By Declan McCullagh. [CNET]
Should the DMCA Prevail
Analysis of the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Master's thesis by Sergey G. Zaytsev.
Slashdot: US Copyright Office Releases DMCA Adviso
The US Copyright Office's congressionally-mandated advisory report on the effect of the DMCA is in, and at first glance it doesn't look too good.
Telepolis: The Internet Backlash
With a mixture of technological fixes and legal pressures, large institutions are trying extend copyright protection in order to regain control over the flows of information. By Felix Stalder.
The DMCA and You
Discusses several DMCA case studies and effects on computers, encryption, DVD decoding, ptv's (Tivo, Replay), satellite television and video games.
The Register - Congress Reps Launch Fightback on D
Two US Congress representatives are this week raising the standard of rebellion against the entertainment business' use of Digital Rights Management and the DMCA to erode consumer rights.
The Register - Tech Giants Back Fair Use Bills
The IT industry's giants including Intel rally behind a bill announced by Congressman Rick Boucher to protect Fair Use in the wake of the DMCA.
Time to Rewrite the DMCA
Editorial by Representative Rick Boucher about the DMCA's threat to fair use rights. [CNet]
Topix.net: DMCA
News about the DMCA, collected from various sources on the web.
U.S. Copyright Office - CARP and Licensing Informa
Documents from the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel proceedings in Acrobat format.
Upstart Seeks Court OK for DVD Copying
"In a pre-emptive strike to stave off the wrath of the movie industry, a small software company is asking a federal judge for permission to sell and market its product for copying DVDs." By Lisa M. Bowman. [CNet]
What Colleges and Universities Need to Know about
A practitioner's journal from 1999 which includes useful information relevant to the DMCA for colleges and/or universities.
Wired: Copyright Clash Shutters Speech
The law enacted to ensure the protection of intellectual property in the Internet age is being called on in several court battles with free speech advocates. By Brad King.
Wired: Dutch Cryptographer Cries Foul
"A Dutch cryptography expert blasted as "horrific" the ambiguous legal reach of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which he feels bars him from publishing his work, even in the Netherlands." By Steve Kettmann.
Yahoo Groups: DMCA-Minnesota
Minnesota-based organization to free Americans from fear of prosecution under the DMCA.
ZDNet: Security experts protest copyright act
Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act. By Robert Lemos.