At first, the title “100% legal to circumnavigate DRM for legal purposes” may seem a bit cryptic. As we’ve seen countless times throughout various governments, “legal uses” is a highly ambiguous and misleading term. But in the case of Brazil and their digital rights laws, it’s a far prettier picture as far as consumer protections are concerned. Here in the United States, it’s technically illegal to circumnavigate DRM (the digital...

So often we see big corporations (namely labels and so called IP owners) over uses of their property being misused. There are actual cases where infringement has occurred and as such, warrants a courtroom visit. All too often however we see companies with too much time on their hands and deep pockets that apparently hold the little common sense they own blatantly (and falsely) issuing DMCA takedowns for every little thing. The funny thing is, when actual infringement has...

Since the age of entitlement is upon us, why not highlight the problems and idiocy that is prevalent in today’s world with another story of someone/group abusing and using DMCA to stifle forward progress. Today’s story-o-stupidity centers around an iPhone app named “StationStops” (iTunes Link) and the MTA. StationStops as you can gather from the name, provides offline access to train arrival/departure times for New York’s metropolitan train...

Just because I can! To hell with Yahoo and Flickr! You may or may not know the controversy surrounding the whole Obama/Joker image and the removal of said image from Flickr. The last couple of days has seen an outpouring of angered individuals across the internet accusing Yahoo and Flickr of trying to sensor the internet and such. Yahoo has rebutted with a DMCA violation take-down notice they received saying that they cherish free speech but the law made them do it. ...

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