My first experiences with “nulled” (or back in the day “cracked”) software date back to the golden days of the Atari 8-bit and Commodore Amiga. Blank floppy disks were cheap, and like most kids, I did not have a lot of money or even at times access to legitimate software distributors. Naturally, the way we…
Good news: GitHub has reinstated the YouTube video downloader youtube-dl that the RIAA claimed was a piracy tool. 👏 More importantly, GitHub is formalizing a policy to evaluate complaints and also establishing and donating $1 Million (USD) to an open-source developer defense fund for developers fighting “unwarranted DMCA Section 1201 takedown claims.” ⚖️
The EFF also pulled out of the W3C, in what seems a response to the W3C’s support of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), and specifically the implementation of DRM in the HTML working group; though I can’t tell for certain. John Gruber notes (in a correction to his post about it) that it was perhaps more…
Automattic has been awarded just over $25,000 in damages in a case against a DMCA takedown abuser, to cover legal fees and company costs from the case. As the TorrentFreak article notes, while this is largely a symbolic win, it’s important because it’s “a clear signal to other copyright holders that false DMCA takedown requests…
Citing two recent cases of copyright law abuse, WordPress.com-owner Automattic has announced it’s backing ‘censorship’ victims by filing two lawsuits to deter future misuses. [editor’s note: this is awesome.]
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