Friday, October 17, 2008

Cory Doctokov: EFF sues to overturn telcom immunity

Original: Link

Remember when the Electronic Frontier Foundation discovered that the NSA had been wiretapping the entire Internet, illegally, with collaboration from the nation's phone companies? Remember when they sued the phone companies in order to discover the full extent of this illegal, warrantless domestic spying?
Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed some great comments in the docket:
Right now, your consumer electronics are designed by the consumer electronics industry, which reacts to consumer market demand in choosing how to innovate. That consumer-focused approach makes sense. But if the MPAA has its way, however, we'll be well on the way to a world in which every legendary being of every land -- and all of the elements of contemporary artistic practice such as appropriation and "quoting" could potentially be outlawed by draconian legislation.
Link ( Thanks, Graham ! )