Civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot, quoted over at Daily Kos: "I would call upon everyone who has access to 'Eyes on the Prize' to openly violate any and all laws regarding its showing."
The backstory is chronicled here; also apropos is Daniel Love's Powerful Pictures, the...

Not long ago, we were bemoaning the malign use Apple and Real Networks are making of digital rights management (DRM) -- in short, abusing legitimate customers in the service of marking territory. Unfortunately, that's far from the worst of it. As we point out in "Unintended Consequences: Five...

I've found two good analyses of the Skype voice over IP (VoIP) software: "An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol," by Salman A. Baset and Henning Schulzrinne, and "VoIP and Skype Security," by Simson Garfinkel.

Skype is software that allows you to make phone calls...

Congressional Democrats yesterday forced a floor debate regarding the certification of Ohio's electoral votes. Citing widespread reports of voter suppression, e-voting machine breakdowns, and other examples of election day disenfranchisement, Senator Barbara Boxer of California and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio objected to the certification of...

Princeton University professor Edward Felten today gazes into his crystal ball, providing 12 predictions for IT-related developments in 2005. Among them is the prediction that more people will begin to recognize the serious security and privacy risks inherent in digital rights management (DRM) technology. We're crossing our fingers...

On Friday President Bush signed into law the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA; PDF), launching several flawed "security" schemes that EFF has long opposed. The media has focused on turf wars between the intelligence and defense communities, but the real story is how IRTPA trades...

The public can sleep easier now that Congress has officially adjourned without passing any of the copyright lobby's biggest requests. Hollywood lost because it constantly asked for too much, rather than finding narrowly tailored solutions to specific problems. Big Content got greedy with bills like the Induce Act,...