Remember that class action law suit filed against Sony here in New York? Well, looks like they’ve decided to settle! The court still needs to approve the settlement, but it actually looks pretty good on first glance!
Sony ‘rootkit’ settlement clamps down on DRM
In completely unrelated news, apparently 2005 is going to be one […]
Hey all,
I hope everyone is having a great holiday season, whether reveling in the
embraces of your long-missed family members, or carefully avoiding them
until they return your car keys and let you drive back to your “real
home”.
Now let me tell you, Free Culture @ NYU has not spent its winter break
sleeping in until 3pm, eating discounted […]
Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday breaks. Free Culture will be back with some meetings soon once the spring semester starts, but I wanted to post two reminders.
First, Free Culture.org is hosting a New York City Regional Summit on January 13th and 14th at Columbia. Please register immediately if you are in the academic […]
They just won’t stop…
As promised a few weeks ago, Microsoft included patches in its monthly patch batch that disable the cloaking abilities of the Sony Rootkit. They have included definitions in its Malicious Software Removal Tool, which runs automatically when users download updates from either Windows Update or Microsoft Update, and can also be run manually from […]
While not as bad as the Sony Rootkit, it has been revealed that the SunnComm MediaMax DRM software has a somewhat major security vulnerability as well that could allow for privilege escalation (or messing with the software’s files as an unprivileged user). The problem stems from the fact that the DRM software, when first […]
The debate about the status of Google’s BookSearch Project (fair use or infringement?) is still raging.
Lessig’s blog has a great comment string discussing the various positions, both moral and juridical that can be taken on this case.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, who is offering a class this Spring called Copyright, Commerce, and Culture (E59.1405, call # […]
Joe Gratz posts a great criticism of the Property Rights Alliance’s “policy brief” regarding HR 1201, the bill set to reform the DMCA so that consumers can legally circumvent DRM in cases where they are excercising their fair use rights. These Property Rights Alliance people don’t really seem to understand fair-use as they think […]
I’ve cleaned up the wiki a bit, adding some parts to the general article on DRM and adding a lot of things to the DRM Protest page. I uploaded high resolution versions of the flyer file so that people can download and print them out without hopefully too much trouble. I also added a link […]
It’s only been a few hours and we already have some press coverage:
Richard Stallman Protests DRM With NYU Students @ Tower Records
Also, it seems that Sony has published its own list of 52 CD’s it released with the XCP2 software, with a special note that two discs (including the Ricky Martin album we found) are […]
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