[LACryptoparty] Wednesday: EFF @ CRASH Space

Tim Schwartz tim at timschwartz.org
Sun Mar 17 15:40:51 GMT 2019


Hi All,

This Wednesday, Elliot Harmon the Activism Director at the EFF will be at CRASH Space in Culver City. He will be here talking about DMCA and lots of other interesting things. Come join! 

https://blog.crashspace.org/2019/02/electronic-frontier-foundation-visits-crash-space-in-march/

Cheers,
Prof X

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Fighting Back Against DRM

The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) made it illegal to
bypass digital locks or publish methods of doing so. Since then, digital
rights management (DRM) technologies have begun to appear everywhere,
from automobiles to home goods to medical devices. Today, modifying the
software on your slow cooker might be illegal.

The law gives manufacturers ammunition to fight people using their
products in ways they don’t approve of. That’s wrought havoc on software
hackers as well as unauthorized resellers and repair shops.

At this event, we’ll talk about how DRM has impacted the hacker and
tinkerer community, and how the community can fight back.



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