Deeplinks – DC Circuit Evades Important Questions in Disappointing Ruling on Section 1201 of the DMCA

Dec 082022
 

The Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has issued a disappointing ruling in the case of Green v. DOJ. The ruling left intact a law that has stifled speech and innovation for decades and forced researchers, advocates, teachers, and tinkerers to beg for government permission to do their work. The silver lining: it left many issues in the case to be determined another day.
We partnered with law firm Wilson Sonsini to file this case in 2016 because Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violates the First Amendment by threatening security research, remix video, media literacy education, access to culture for disabled people, and even the right to understand how your car works…

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily) – Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – Themes

Dec 082022
 

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The good news is by increasing productivity in the Bullshit Essay sector, students can focus on liquor, memes, and unfortunate casual encounters as God intended.

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The Register – San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots

Dec 082022
 

I’ll be back, or perhaps not

San Francisco legislators this week changed course on their killer robot policy, banning the police from using remote-control bots fitted with explosives. For now.…

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Richard Stallman’s Political Notes – US “REAL ID” requirement delayed again

Dec 082022
 

The US has delayed yet again the requirement for “REAL ID” drivers
licenses for purposes such as getting on an commercial flight.

There is too much identifying and tracking people in the US.
Let’s keep resisting, and see how many years we can block this.

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Techdirt. – Nintendo Shuts Down ‘Smash World Tour’ Over Licensing At The Last Possible Second

Dec 082022
 

It will come as no surprise to any regular reader here when I say that Nintendo is roughly the most annoyingly draconian protector of IP in the video game space. At this point, Techdirt posts discussing Nintendo’s copyright and trademark antics are legion. Notable among those posts for the purposes of this discussion are several online gaming tournaments that Nintendo has allowed to exist, often without a license, but which Nintendo has still been willing to shut down over the use of 3rd party tools that make it possible to stream older games on current hardware and over the internet better. Those shutdowns over the use of tools that have nothing to do with copyright infringement…

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