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Conservancy Files Petition for DMCA Exemptions for “Smart” TVs
Software Freedom Conservancy at 2014-10-31T16:44:52Z
Conservancy Files Petition for DMCA Exemptions for “Smart” TVs
Conservancy asks U.S. Copyright Office to affirmatively permit community-based hacks on television firmwares
Software Freedom Conservancy, with the pro-bono assistance of Tor Ekeland, P.C., filed today a petition for a proposed exception to the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). In its filing, Conservancy asks that the U.S. Copyright Office to legally permit circumvention of encryption for firmwares found on Smart TV products from manufacturers such as Samsung, Sony and LG. Conservancy's full Petition for Proposed Exemption under 17 U.S.C. § 1201 is available in PDF and in ODT format.
By default, the DMCA prohibits users from examining and attempting to decrypt firmwares on these devices when the manufacturer has used Digital Restrictions Management (“DRM”) to prohibit modification and augmentation of the software on the device. Most of these devices include software licensed under GPLv2, such as Linux and BusyBox, but the DMCA often legally stymies users' ability to installed modified versions of the firmware, even when the device manufacturer provides the complete, corresponding source for these components and “scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable” (per requirements in the GPLv2). If granted, Conservancy's requested exemptions would liberate users of BusyBox/Linux-based encrypted firmwares to circumvent the encryption (if they find a technically feasible way of doing so), and such users would need not fear the harsh penalties under DMCA for disseminating information on how to circumvent such DRM.
Commenting on today's filing, Karen Sandler, Conservancy's Executive Director, said: “We work to help create an open environment for users and developers of free and open source software to innovate and make use of the key freedoms that free software licenses give them. Unfortunately the DMCA curtails these freedoms. Our request is that the U.S. Copyright office restore these freedoms to everyone in the U.S.”
Aaron Williamson, Partner at Tor Ekeland, noted the importance of participation in this process by individual citizens, for-profit companies, and non-profits alike: “We're pleased to be working with Conservancy on this petition. The DMCA is a flawed law and the exemption process is imperfect, but an exemption that enables improvements to the free and open source operating systems at the heart of these devices will promote consumer innovation and security. ”
Conservancy hereby releases its Petition under the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0), in hopes that others will file petitions for other, similar consumer electronics products. The deadline for this round of petitions is this Monday, 3 November 2014.
Permalink for this announcement: http://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/oct/31/dmca-petition/
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Dennis Zeit at 2014-10-19T10:28:08Z
#Debian 7.7 was released yesterday (Saturday, 18th October 2014) :-)
Debian 7.7 Changelog
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Ok, time to update my torrent seeder. :-)Ah, not quite yet. Still showing the 7.6 images. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/Oh... hmm probably they will appear in the next hours.
Jason Self at 2014-10-10T05:13:33Z
Like some sort of a growth? Better have that looked at by an M.D.Nathan Smith, Sander likes this.
Congrats to Deb Nicholson on receiving the O'Reilly Open Source Award!
MediaGoblin's community manager Deb Nicholson received the O'Reilly Open Source Award for her work on technology + social justice, including her work on MediaGoblin and our friends at OpenHatch.
(A bit of a late post, but better late than never! Go Deb!)
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Evan Prodromou at 2014-09-09T18:22:42Z
OK, that was the meatiest concall we've had for W3C's Social WG yet. Good one!Sander likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-08-24T03:32:43Z
slides of my debconf talk "Debian in the dark ages of Free Software" now available here https://upsilon.cc/~zack/talks/2014/20140823-dc14-darkages.pdfjohns, Sander, Mike Linksvayer, Yutaka Niibe and 11 others likes this.
jrobb, SombreKnave, Lars Wirzenius, maiki and 1 others shared this.
Very well summarised, Stefano. Thanks!
(I has encrypted p2p backups as long as I can access my peer over sftp.)Lars Wirzenius at 2014-08-24T10:00:10Z
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I like that, it resonates with me as a non-developer free software fan / whatever.
Debian Project at 2014-08-24T07:53:51Z
DebConf14 started today with a meet & greet, welcome and keynotes by zack and biella!
johns, Sander, dbillyx, Yutaka Niibe and 7 others likes this.
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Debian Project at 2014-08-24T19:33:10Z
Debian will participate in the Outreach Program for Women, and is looking for sponsors, mentors and organisers.
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Olivier Berger at 2014-08-25T08:50:37Z
/me thinks that a good location for next debconfs could be around Dineyland Paris... but I fear I won't be able to help organizing, although it's quite close to my current living place :-/Sander likes this.
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Fun fact
Fun fact: People that say "only God can judge me" will judge the fuck out of you.
https://twitter.com/TheMichaelRock/status/483236972048437248
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What's this NFC tag on my #coffee pot do? Oh yeah, it posted this message. May as well make a cup while I'm here.
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Show all 5 repliesFrom amazon. These were a little pricey but, I wanted plain black ones without any logos on them, these fit the bill pretty damn close. There are some better deals out there though, looks like ebay is another good place to look.
Can you explain a little more about it ? Photo or something to learn?Did my response to jrobb help explain things?
Looks like the same 5pack of black NFC tags I bought on amazon are $4 cheaper on ebay. :/
X11R5 at 2014-06-04T16:43:18Z in Hawthorne, Nevada
Aw man, the german truck brand. Daimler and volvo are the #1 go-to song for this.Evan Prodromou, Sander likes this.
GNU MediaGoblin at 2014-04-17T22:01:18Z
How's this for #fossworldproblems? The blogpost you were writing about approaching the second funding milestone is outdated because YOU PASSED IT!
Nice job everyone! Let's see how high we can get before the end of the campaign tomorrow! More updates soon!olm-e, Sander, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Carlos Solís and 13 others likes this.
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Good question. So the plan on "premium hosting" reward unlocked is that we'll be opening that option after the campaign is over as the single, only reward option available. We'll mention that tomorrow in an official blogpost (was mentioned also earlier in the week as a possibility) and will have more to say about that next week.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-04-17T22:13:16Z
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That'll give time for people to, you know, actually get the reward, as well as time for us to plan it out a bit better.
Nice
MediaGoblin hits first funding goal, gets 10k matching grant!
MediaGoblin's first funding milestone reached! And we got a 10k matching grant!
That's right! That means all current donations currently count for double! As soon as we hit 46, that transforms into 56k... like magic! There's never been a better time to donate!
Also by passing the first campaign goal we've successfully funded federation, 1.0, and podcast support. But things get really exciting at our next goal where we fund private media sharing and PyPump development... see the campaign page for details!
We've got two weeks left... let's make this happen! Support MediaGoblin!Undefined, wehlutyk, Evan Prodromou, Gustavo (cuenta antigua) and 21 others likes this.
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Oh, wow! :-) Makes me want to donate again :-)
sazius at 2014-04-04T16:55:29Z
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Free Software Foundation at 2014-02-26T20:24:36Z
GNU @MediaGoblin launches campaign for federation and privacy in 2014! https://u.fsf.org/u2Sander, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Christopher Allan Webber, johns likes this.
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X11R5 at 2014-02-24T01:44:26Z in Hawthorne, Nevada
I ended up having 13 kids (counting our own) spend the night does not offer corrections when i was thinking if i tick the case "ignore ssl error".Sander likes this.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-02-13T17:34:18Z
MediaGoblin campaign launch: ETA Monday.
There will be an awesome video and pixel art, not to mention an opportunity to advance network freedom while dancing like it's some kinda party. I hope you're excited!
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Definitely will be supporting this and spreading word about it on Diaspora. :)Sean Tilley at 2014-02-17T19:51:14Z
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X11R5 at 2014-02-04T23:15:06Z in Hawthorne, Nevada
Like olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that because my daugther is getting upgraded? Your ex-wife #tincanmama have you updated to?lnxwalt@microca.st, Sander likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-02-01T16:29:40Z
world-wide preview of #MediaGoblin next campaign video. At #FOSDEM, where else? woooooohsazius at fmrl.me, RuiSeabra, Sander, Evan Prodromou and 2 others likes this.
GNU MediaGoblin rox! =)