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EFF Lifts Curtain On New Act Of Sony DRM Farce
News We're pleased that Sony BMG responded quickly and responsibly when we drew their attention to this security problem," EFF staff attorney Kurt Opsahl said in a statement. Following those revelations, the EFF asked computer security company iSec...
[December 7, 2005, 8:10]
EFF Defends Novell Partnership
News On Wednesday, Novell and the EFF issued a joint press release claiming that the two organisations would co-operate on EFF's "patent busting" programme. The controversy surrounding Novell's pact with Microsoft has prompted questions on why an...
[May 24, 2007, 17:57]
EFF Files Free Speech Lawsuit Against Record Labels
News In the suit filed Wednesday in federal court in New Jersey, the EFF argued that the researchers from Princeton and Rice universities have a First Amendment right to publish their paper. EFF attorney Cindy Cohn said that even if the entertainment...
[June 7, 2001, 8:32]
EFF Sets Its Sights On 'frivolous' IT Patents
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called for assistance in its attempt to have 10 technology-related patents overturned. The EFF is also unhappy that the companies who own them have, it claims, all threatened or brought lawsuits against...
[July 1, 2004, 16:15]
EFF Appeals Apple Trade Secret Decision
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said Tuesday that it has appealed a court ruling that could force Apple fan sites to give up their confidential sources to the company. The EFF, which is representing two of the Web sites, said that ruling...
[March 23, 2005, 11:55]
EFF Publishes Guide To Safe Blogging
News In order to help would-be bloggers stay on the right side of the law - and their bosses - the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has now launched a guide for blogging in the workplace. The EFF advisory also recommends using anonymising technology...
[April 11, 2005, 17:50]
Novell Joins EFF For Patent Reform
News Novell is providing funding for the EFF's "patent-busting" effort, Nat Friedman, Novell's chief technology and strategy officer for open-source, said in an interview in San Francisco at the Open Source Business Conference.
[May 24, 2007, 10:29]
EFF Sets Its Sights On 'frivolous' IT Patents
Talkback Revoke all these patents and things will be more sane. Some of the patents are completly adsurd. It is painfully obvious that the patent office has no clue that these methods were in use years before the patent.
[July 2, 2004, 5:33]
EFF Sets Its Sights On 'frivolous' IT Patents
Talkback Patents are supposed to cover novel technical inventions that would be non-obvious to someone knowledgable in that area of technology. Most patents granted today are only granted because the patent office doesn't have the skill or the time to...
[July 13, 2004, 8:14]
EFF Lifts Curtain On New Act Of Sony DRM Farce
Talkback This article on P2PNET about SunnComm shows that they also need to lift their business ethics as well as their technical expertise.http://p2pnet.net/story/7201
[December 7, 2005, 13:02]
Webcasting 'excluded From WIPO Broadcasting Treaty'
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Friday welcomed the news that webcasting will no longer be included in the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) broadcasting treaty. The EFF describes this treaty as a "a protection racket...
[May 8, 2006, 17:10]
Privacy Concerns Over Google Desktop 3
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said on Thursday that a feature added to the latest version of Google Desktop has serious privacy implications. But the EFF claimed this feature "greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy" due to US...
[February 10, 2006, 17:15]
EMI Considers Opening Its DRM To Inspection
News The EMI Group is reviewing a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to allow reverse engineering of its digital rights management (DRM) software, EMI said on Friday. The EFF, a digital rights group, sent an open letter to EMI earlier...
[January 20, 2006, 12:45]
Are These The Sony Rootkit CDs?
News Cyber-rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) claimed on Wednesday to have identified 19 Sony CDs that contain a rootkit-like application that disguises its copy-restriction technology. According to the EFF, the following CDs contain...
[November 10, 2005, 17:00]
US Hits Legal Turbulence Over EU Passenger Data
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued a legal complaint against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to force it to comply with an earlier request for information on how European passenger data is secured, shared, used and...
[November 23, 2006, 16:26]
A-rockin' And A-rollin' For Internet Peace
News EFF president Barry Steinhardt, in brief remarks to event sponsors and VIPs, said the money raised by the event will help the EFF defend cyberspace from legislation such as the 'Son of CDA' bill, now being considered in Congress.
[June 29, 1998, 8:59]
File-swappers Fight Back
News This case is about the freedom of technologists to innovate and the public's right to communicate," said Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney for the EFF. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has represented hackers...
[November 7, 2001, 14:22]
56-bit Crypto Code Cracking Record Smashed
News The record-breaking computer was specially built for the challenge by The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) at a cost of $250,000 (£153,374). EFF, a non-profit organisation, designed and built the DES Cracker to prove that information protected...
[July 17, 1998, 11:11]
MP3 - Civil Liberties Group Joins The Row
News The EFF's proposals on the table for discussion include an anti-piracy campaign, a series of industry briefings, support for open formats in legal cases, and an "EFF Uncompressed" concert tour, which would feature artists at the forefront of the...
[May 26, 1999, 8:45]
Breaking News: Novell Tries To Get Back Its Open Source Glow
Blog The EFF has a good rep in the open source world - being against all curbs on free and open information and software (the clues in the name) - and has come out against DRM, and US government attempts to monitor air passenger information.
[May 23, 2007, 18:13]
