[HN Gopher] EFF to Ninth Circuit: No Software Exception to Tradi...
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       EFF to Ninth Circuit: No Software Exception to Traditional
       Copyright Limits
        
       Author : nfriedly
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2024-03-13 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.eff.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.eff.org)
        
       | killingtime74 wrote:
       | TLDR this is their argument. Have to see if any court or congress
       | accepts it.
        
       | shmerl wrote:
       | EFF is right. Copyright should be only limited, not expanded.
       | It's already way too overreaching.
        
       | freedomben wrote:
       | If you haven't read it, I highly recommend Cory Doctorow's book
       | "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation." I
       | originally had low expectations that anybody would have a
       | reasonable answer, and mainly purchased it to support the author
       | making it available DRM free, but have been very impressed with
       | the analysis.
       | 
       | Relevant to this issue, Cory discusses how this (ab)use of
       | copyright is what enables gigantic tech companies and walled
       | gardens, because competing with them is not a technical problem,
       | but rather a legal problem. He's right! (At least _for now_ until
       | the wet dreams of the DRM people are realized and there 's
       | hardware DRM baked into everything). If people could without fear
       | of lawyers build stuff, big tech would have to compete on merits
       | and user experience rather than wielding armies of IP lawyers and
       | legal threats.
       | 
       | [1]: https://craphound.com/internetcon/
        
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