Cindy Cohn is an American civil liberties attorney specializing in Internet law. She represented Daniel J. Bernstein and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Bernstein v. United States. (wikipedia)
The big nonprofits are getting the attention here, but this isn't really just for them. What about the little guys that are just starting and may not be reaching an audience who wants to hear what they have to say? These are the groups that will lose.
Chevron used the Nigerian military as their security force and that resulted in gross human rights violations.
It's going to be not only right and left, but up, down, every way you go.
We want them to pledge not to take action against the paper and all future papers as well, ... It's not appropriate for scientists to have to ask the industry for permission to present research.
I think that's creepy, and most people think that's creepy, and it's not disclosed.
They attempt to create specific upper limits on how much encryption you can have, in this case how many channels you can have.
The proposed settlement will provide significant benefits for consumers who bought the flawed CDs. Under the terms, those consumers will get what they thought they were buying -- music that will play on their computers without restriction or security risk.
It makes sense for all of these companies to sit down and think about this they have not given it sufficient thought until now. It's unfortunate that some horrible things had to happen for them to think about it.
This appears to be a situation where the technology is overtaking the regulatory structure in ways that were not anticipated by the people who wrote the regulations.
We think this information should be public. But we thought the appropriate thing to do was to present the issue to the judge and let the judge make the call.
