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Watch a Diebold Voting Machine get Hacked on FoxNews - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Fox News exposes the Princeton report that confirms that Diebold machines cannot be trusted in elections.
http://www.anti-dmca.org/2006/09/18#utube

Canadians: HOWTO stop the Canadian DMCA, act now! - (Found July 2, 2008 )

From Michael Geist: For the past 30 days, Michael Geist has been listing reasons why Canadians should be alarmed at Canada's proposed new copyright law, which will bring the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Canada's lawbooks. The DMCA has been roundly criticized as terribly upsetting the copyright balance, resulting in researchers being jailed and threatened with lawsuits, an unchecked expansion of the copyright monopoly into areas unenvisioned by law (region-coding, limiting...
http://www.anti-dmca.org/2006/09/18#can-dmca

NPR: A Look Inside Hollywood's Ratings System - (Found July 2, 2008 )

From NPR: Filmmaker Kirby Dick's new documentary, This Film is Not Yet Rated, peers into the secretive world of the Motion Picture Association of America's film ratings system. MPAA board members are anonymous, deliberations are private, and standards are seemingly arbitrary.
http://www.anti-dmca.org/2006/09/13#npr

The NEW DMCA: Bill the Hollywood cartels don.t want you to see - (Found July 2, 2008 )

From IPac: Many of you have seen or heard about the new amendment to the DMCA being sent to Congress by the Dep. of Justice. We've gotten a copy of the proposed bill and it's worse than we could have imagined.This is a concerted effort to escalate Hollywood's war on America by creating a generation of criminals and sending them off to jail. That's right: the "Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006" (IPPA) would double the authorized prison terms for existing copyright infringement, create.
http://www.anti-dmca.org/2006/04/24#dmca_20

France about to pass the an anti-DMCA law - (Found July 2, 2008 )

France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer Inc (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto devices other than the computer maker's popular iPod player. ADVERTISEMENT Under a draft law expected to be voted in parliament on Thursday, consumers would be able to legally use software that converts digital content into any format. It would no longer be illegal to crack digital rights management -- the codes that protect.
http://www.anti-dmca.org/2006/03/13#france

Mom goes broke from RIAA lawsuit, asks for donations - (Found July 2, 2008 )

MP3Newswire reports: As the next move in the Patti Santangelo Fight Goliath fund-raising campaign, Jason Rohrer is writing a script which will allow everyone who wants to contribute to post an amount directly into a special PayPal account. Patti is the New York working mother with five children who's decided she's not going to be further victimized by Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music or EMI, the multi-billion-dollar members of the Organized Music cartel which has been trying to extort.
http://www.anti-dmca.org/2005/12/22#mom

Trio Charged With Modifying Xboxes To Pirate Video Games - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Techweb is reporting that three men are charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement: Two store owners and a third man were charged on Monday in a federal copyright infringement case for allegedly selling modified Microsoft Corp. Xbox consoles that allowed them to play pirated video games copied onto a multi-gigabyte hard drive. The game consoles were modified with a new control chip and a 250 gigabyte hard drive. The embedded software on the chip creates a new start menu..
http://www.anti-dmca.org/2005/12/20#trio

"Merry Chrismas! We're Turning Off Your Analog Outs" - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Public Knowledge is reporting about HR 4569 -- yet another attempt to close the analog hole. To summarize: The government is proposing that devices (consumer electronics, computers, software) manufactured after a certain date respond to a copy-protection signal or watermark in a digital video stream, and pass along that signal when converting the video to analog. The same goes for analog video streams, to pass on the protection to the digital video outputs. So, essentially, the government...
http://www.anti-dmca.org/2005/12/17#hole

SecFocus: Study suggests DMCA takedown regs abused - (Found July 2, 2008 )

More than 30% of DMCA takedown notifications are abused and could be easily challenged in court.
http://www.anti-dmca.org/2005/12/17#study