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[News] DMCA Used for Censorship, Again

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EFF: Chamber of Commerce Takes Aim at Yes Men

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| Attorneys for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce 
| have issued a takedown notice in an attempt 
| to silence a parody website that was posted 
| in support of the Yes Men's embarrassing 
| prank poking fun at the Chamber's stance on 
| climate change legislation.
| 
| In a letter sent to the Chamber's attorneys 
| today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation 
| (EFF) demands that the baseless claims be 
| withdrawn immediately.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/22

Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: John McCain vs. the Internet

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| Eternally excellent Rachel Maddow allowed 
| me to join her tonight (pretty much the 
| only reason I own a TV now is to watch her 
| show) for a discussion about John McCain's 
| "Internet Freedom Act," also known as "The 
| Great Telecom Reacharound of 2009."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/23/xeni-on-rachel-maddo-1.html


Recent:

EFF Warns Texas Instruments to Stop Harassing Calculator Hobbyists

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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned
| Texas Instruments (TI) today not to pursue its
| baseless legal threats against calculator
| hobbyists who blogged about potential
| modifications to the company's programmable
| graphing calculators.
|
| TI's calculators perform a "signature check"
| that allows only approved operating systems to
| be loaded onto the hardware. But researchers
| were able to reverse-engineer signing keys,
| allowing tinkers to install custom operating
| systems and unlock new functionality in the
| calculators' hardware. In response to this
| discovery, TI unleashed a torrent of demand
| letters claiming that the anti-circumvention
| provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright
| Act (DMCA) required the hobbyists to take down
| commentary about and links to the keys. EFF
| represents three men who received such letters.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/13


Ralph Lauren And Its Lawyers Discover The Streisand Effect On Bogus DMCA Takedown

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| Boing Boing put up a post about it, along with the tag
| line "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis." While
| some have questioned whether the ad is even real, one
| thing is clear: Ralph Lauren was not pleased. The
| company's lawyers at Greenberg Traurig sent DMCA takedown
| notices concerning both posts. Despite Blogger's new DMCA
| policy, Google still quickly took down the post at
| Photoshop Disasters, causing the site to ask whether or
| not Ralph Lauren or its lawyers have ever heard of the
| Streisand Effect (yay). BoingBoing's host, however,
| doesn't automatically take content down and passed along
| the info to BoingBoing, who quickly pointed out that this
| was clearly fair use (commentary, criticism, etc.) and
| the DMCA takedown wasn't being used to stop infringing
| content, but to stifle speech.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091006/2245076436.shtml
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