| Endangered Gizmos List |
| Published on 01/30/05 at 14:46:37 GMT by Norbert |
| |
 Source: http://eff.org/news/archives/2005_01.php#002223
January 24, 2005
EFF Announces Endangered Gizmos List
Project Demonstrates How Bad Law Ruins the Environment for Innovation
San Francisco - A new project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) highlights the way misguided laws and lawsuits can pollute the environment for technological innovation. [...]
"This isn't about saving one or two geeky gadgets. It's about fostering technological development by letting products be designed by technologists, rather than Congress and the courts," said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer. "What we're seeing is the beginning of the extinction of both current and future gadgets, due to a mix of proposed law, litigation, and overreaching use of existing law. Lawsuits are destroying future technological progress by killing off today's best innovations."
http://eff.org/endangered/
Endangered Gizmos
Help EFF Protect the Environment for Innovation
http://www.eff.org/
EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
a comprehensive archive of digital civil liberties information. Topics include Censorship, Copyright Law, Digital Rights Management, E-voting, File-sharing, Filtering, Intellectual Property, Patents, Privacy, Reverse engineering, RFID, Spam, Surveillance, USA PATRIOT Act.
EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people, lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries, working to protect our digital rights.
EFF works
- to protect our fundamental rights regardless of technology
- to educate about civil liberties issues related to technology
- to act as a defender of those liberties
Activities: EFF
- opposes misguided legislation
- initiates and defends court cases preserving individuals' rights
- launches global public campaigns
- introduces leading edge proposals and papers
- hosts frequent educational events
- engages the press regularly
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was created to defend our rights to think, speak, and share our ideas, thoughts, and needs using new technologies, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web."
EFFector is a biweekly electronic newsletter, that informs of issues that are important to Internet users and tells them how they can participate.
Blue Ribbon Campaign opposes online censorship and protects the human right of free speech.
Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE) to thwart recording and movie industry attempts to seize control over MP3, DVD and other emerging digital media formats.
Cooperative Computing Awards with an endowment of over half a million dollars in prize money, to encourage ordinary Internet users to contribute to solving huge scientific problems.
Electronic Frontier Foundation 454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110 ++1 415 436 9333 Fax: ++1 415 436 9993
information@eff.org
¶ |
|
| All Articles by Norbert |
|
| Comments on this article: |
| Endangered Gizmos List | 0 comments | |
The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for the content.
Only registered members may comment on articles. |
| |
| No comments so far. |
| |
|
1219 reads
