October 20th 2007
This summer, the nation’s most popular spectator sport took an unusual step. The NFL put in place a policy to prevent news organizations from distributing over 45 seconds of video shot at League facilities per day. About the same time the NFL also imposed restrictions on player blogs.
October 17th 2007
EFF Civil Liberties Director, Jennifer Granick, provides an excellent review of the Free Flow of Information Act (FFIA). Introduced by Senators Specter, Lugar, and Schumer the bill seeks to establish a federal journalist-shield privilege. The bill provides broad protection to anyone engaged in the regular gathering, writing or publishing of news or other matters of […]
October 7th 2007
The FBI and Customs have both recently gained high profile convictions of software pirates. In September, the FBI gained the conviction of 27 year-old Nathan L. Peterson, described by them as “the most prolific online commercial distributor of pirated software ever convicted in the United States.” The owner of a massive for-profit software piracy Web […]