Intellectual Property Law

minilinks for 2008-09-26

By hugh

• Spore Makers Sued for Duplicitous DRM
  Game maker Electronic Arts is facing a lawsuit for the use of copy protection that secretly installs a restrictive program on a user's computer.
  
• ISP: It's Impossible For Us to Stop Illegal P2P
  A Belgian ISP, ordered by a court to stop illegal file-sharing, now says that effective filtering is impossible.
  
• Analysis on EFF's Case Against the NSA
  ArsTechnica's Julian Sanchez has some thoughts on the implication of EFF's new case against the government.
  
• MySpace Music Debut
  MySpace has teamed up with four major labels to offer unlimited streaming music supported by advertising.
  
• Chrome for Privacy Fanatics
  A spinoff from Google's new browser, called Iron, offers to make protecting user privacy the browser default.
  
• The End of Video Sharing?
  NBC says it has been successful in protecting videos, and has managed to keep the Olympics and recent SNL skits from popping up on YouTube.
  
• Encryption Mandatory in Nevada?
  A new law appears to require that all transmissions over the Internet be protected with encryption. How times have changed!
  
• Wiretap This!
  A supporter has put our new NSA wiretapping graphic on a shirt — all proceeds to be donated to EFF!
  

Full post as published by Electronic Freedom Foundation - Deep Links on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).