Back in February, we wrote about a new bill passed by Congress that gave private, military and commercial drones more access to U.S. airspace. Now, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the FAA has released a list of institutions that have asked for permission to fly drones in the United States.
With just two weeks before everything stored on Megaupload potentially gets deleted, help is at hand for those who can’t access legitimate, legal files stored in the now-frozen cloud service.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just announced some big, big wins for consumers. Labeled as “exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act,” a law enacted in the late ’90s to protect copyright holders against piracy, it’s now within consumers’ legal rights to jailbreak phones, rip DVDs (for certain uses), and a 2006 exemption granting [...]
With feds cracking down on internet piracy at the same time as internet groups try to quash lawsuits against file sharers, it’s beginning to look as if both sides are taking the legality of file sharing more seriously.
