Digital Rights Management and Anti-circumvention

Scope

 * Use this page to list sources related to DRM (Digital Rights Management) and laws regulating the circumvention of such technologies, such as the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions in section 1201.

News / Editorial

 * Ben Sisario, Music Blogs Caught Up in Labels' Online Piracy Fight NYTimes.com (12/13/2010)
 * David Kravets, First Criminal Trial Over Game-Console Modding Begins Tuesday, wire.com (Nov. 29, 2010)
 * Nate Anderson, Law profs: Senate will need to ratify anticounterfeiting treaty, Ars Technica (Oct. 29, 2010) (not sure if this is the best section for the ACTA).
 * David Kravets, Prosecutors seek to block Xbox hacking pioneer from mod-chip trial, Ars Technica (Oct. 22, 2010).
 * Peter Bright, Intel confirms HDCP key is real, can now be broken at will, Ars Technica (Sep. 17, 2010).
 * Sebastian Anthony, Judge rules that circumventing DRM is not illegal, DownloadSquad (Jul 26, 2010).
 * Chad Woodford, Two Important DMCA Anti-Circumvention Legal Developments, woodfordiplaw.com (July 26, 2010)
 * Zusha Elinson, Veoh's Troubles Could Hurt Big DMCA Appeal, The Recorder (Apr. 22, 2010).
 * Amy E. Bivins, $12.3 Million DMCA Damages Awarded Against Defaulting Cell Phone ‘Reflasher', Electronic Commerce & Law Report (Mar. 17, 2010).
 * Mike Collett-White, Pink Floyd Wins Court Battle With EMI Over Downloads, NY Times (Mar. 11, 2010).
 * Paul meller, European Parliament Debates Anti-ACTA Petition, PC World (Mar. 9, 2010).
 * Grant Gross, DOJ Launches IP Enforcement Task Force, PC World (Feb.12, 2010).
 * Eric Pfanner, In Secret, Nations Work Toward Crackdown on Piracy, NY Times (Feb. 8, 2010).
 * John Paczkowski, Apple wins permanent injunction against Psystar, CNET News (Dec. 16, 2009).
 * Nate Anderson, Current ACTA drafts ban DRM interoperability laws, Ars Technica (Nov. 30, 2009).
 * Nate Anderson, Public pressure stops BBC's HDTV DRM drive (for now), Ars Technica (Nov. 10, 2009).
 * Nate Anderson, Bizarre legal defense after EMI sues over Beatles MP3 sales, Ars Technica (Nov. 5, 2009).
 * Greg Sandoval, MPAA: Antipiracy Is Now 'Content Protection', CNET News (Oct. 16, 2009).
 * IWR NewsDesk, Viviane Reding sets stage for 'ambitious European Digital Agenda', Information World Review (Oct. 1, 2009).
 * Peter Kafka, Amazon: We Won't Delete Your Kindle Books Unless We Need to Delete Your Books, All Things Digital (Oct. 1, 2009).
 * Jennifer Granick, Hey, TI, Leave Those Kids Alone, EFF Deeplinks Blog (Sep. 25, 2009).
 * Dan Goodin, Texas Instruments aims lawyers at calculator hackers, The Register (Sep. 23, 2009).
 * Alexander Wolfe, Microsoft DRM Patent Could Revive Peer-to-Peer Music Nets, The InformationWeek (Sep. 22, 2009).
 * Jacqui Cheng, Japanese RIAA wants server-side music DRM for mobile phones, Ars Technica (Sep. 14, 2009).
 * Matthew Lasar, Broadcast flag rears vile head, bars viewer from recording, Ars Technica (Sep. 13, 2009).
 * Laura June, Amazon offers to give back your Kindle's copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Engadget (Sep. 4, 2009)
 * Nate Anderson, Flat World schools textbook publishers with free Web editions, Ars Technica (Aug. 24, 2009).
 * Rob Pegoraro, DVD-Copying Tools Lose in Court, Flourish in Real Life, Washington Post (Aug. 13, 2009).
 * Jacqui Cheng, RealNetworks court loss a reminder about limits of "fair use", Ars Technica (Aug. 12, 2009).
 * David Kravets, Another Court Deals Major Blow to DVD Copying, Wired: ThreatLevel (Aug. 12, 2009).
 * David Kravets, Judge Rules DVD-Copying Software Is Illegal, Wired: ThreatLevel (Aug. 11, 2009).
 * Nate Anderson, New petition demands an end to Kindle DRM, faces long odds, Ars Technica (Aug. 4, 2009).
 * Chris Foresman, Apple claims jailbreaking could crash cell towers, Ars Technica (Jul. 29, 2009).
 * David Kravets, iPhone Jailbreaking Could Crash Cellphone Towers, Apple Claims, Wired.com (Jul. 28, 2009).
 * Zusha Elinson, Apple Drops Pursuit of Site With iPhone Hacking Tips, The Recorder (Jul. 23, 2009).
 * Jacqui Cheng, Apple drops legal threats against wiki operator&mdash;for now, Ars Technica (Jul. 22, 2009).
 * Jacqui Cheng, FBI charges satellite descramblers under DMCA, Ars Technica (Jul. 15, 2009).
 * Gina Keating, Power.com countersues Facebook over user data, Washington Post (Jul. 10, 2009).
 * Greg Sandoval, MPAA says Real's patent attempt saps RealDVD argument, CNET News (Jun. 25, 2009).
 * John Timmer, TV's broadcast flag has its DRM moment, Ars Technica (Jun. 15, 2009).
 * Jacqui Cheng, Apple sued over legal threats to wiki operator, Ars Technica (Apr. 27, 2009).
 * Nate Anderson, FTC: We'll "come calling" about deceptive DRM, Ars Technica (Mar. 25, 2009).
 * Fred von Lohmann, Apple Adds Still More DRM to iPod Shuffle, DeepLinks (Mar. 13, 2009).
 * Alexander Turcic, Amazon uses DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books, mobileread.com (Mar. 12, 2009).
 * Ben Kuchera, Gears of War DRM screwup makes PC version unplayable, Ars Technica (Jan. 29, 2009).
 * Stuart Houghton, EA Respond To DRM Complaints, Kotaku (Sep. 19, 2008).
 * Electronic Arts' Game Authorization Management Tool.

Legal Briefs / Opinions / Statutes

 * 17 U.S.C. § 1201.
 * ''MGE UPS SYSTEMS, INC. v. GENERAL ELECTRICS CONSUMER AND INDUS. 612 F.3d 760 (Fifth Circuit 2010)
 * EFF Notice of Misrepresentation to TI, Electronic Frontier Foundation (Oct. 13, 2009).
 * DVD Copy Control Assoc., Inc. v. Kaleidescape, Inc., No. H031631 (Cal. Ct. App. Aug. 12, 2009).
 * Realnetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Assoc., Inc., No. 08-04548 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 11, 2009).
 * Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc., No. 08-5780 (N.D. Cal. May 11, 2009).
 * AP v. All Headline News Corp., 608 F. Supp. 2d 454 (S.D.N.Y. 2009).
 * Chamberlain v. Skylink, 381 F.3d 1178 (Fed. Cir. 2004).
 * Lexmark Int'l Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 387 F.3d 522 (6th Cir. 2004).
 * Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, 111 F. Supp. 2d 294 (S.D.N.Y. 2000).

Scholarship

 * Andrew A. Adams and Ian Brown, Keep Looking: The Answer to the Machine is Elsewhere, Computers and Law (2009).
 * John Rothchild, The Social Costs of Technological Protection Measures, 34 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 1181 (2007).
 * Neil W. Netanel, Temptations of the Walled Garden: Digital Rights Management and Mobile Phone Carriers, 6 J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L. 77 (2007).
 * John Rothchild, Economic Analysis of Technological Protection Measures, 84 Oregon L. Rev. 489 (2005).
 * Jonathan Weinberg, Digital TV, Copy Control, and Public Policy, 19 Cardozo Arts. & Ent. L.J. 277 (2002).