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Meet RCEP, A Trade Agreement In Asia That’s Even Worse Than TPP Or ACTA

It’s been a big few weeks for leaked trade agreements, and the latest is even more disappointing than the others.

An RCEP protest in India at Udyog Bhawan (Ministry of Commerce). Photo: Siddharth Singh.

It's been a big few weeks for leaked trade agreements. Just when we thought we had seen all the leaked text of the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), Wikileaks went ahead and published some more yesterday. And on the same day, a leaked draft of the intellectual property chapter of yet another trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic

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Automakers Say You Don’t Really Own Your Car

John Deere even argued that letting people modify car computer systems will result in them pirating music through the on-board entertainment system.

EFF is fighting for vehicle owners’ rights to inspect the code that runs their vehicles and to repair and modify their vehicles, or have a mechanic of their choice do the work. At the moment, the anti-circumvention prohibition in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act arguably restricts vehicle inspection, repair, and modification. If EFF is

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Dear FCC: Get Out of D.C. And Talk To The Over 1 Million Americans Who Support Real Net Neutrality

Public pressure maybe changing the FCC’s tune of the issue of net neutrality.

The FCC is slated to close the written comment window for the net neutrality proceeding on September 10th, but that doesn’t mean that the FCC is going to make up its mind anytime soon. In fact, it doesn’t even mean that the FCC will be done hearing from the public. Technically, the public can continue to comment, and the FCC, if it decides to do

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Charges Dismissed Against Journalist Barrett Brown

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas today filed a motion to dismiss 11 charges against Barrett Brown in a criminal prosecution that would have had massive implications for journalism and the right of ordinary people to share links. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has written extensively about the case and had planned to […]

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas today filed a motion to dismiss 11 charges against Barrett Brown in a criminal prosecution that would have had massive implications for journalism and the right of ordinary people to share links. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has written extensively about the case and had planned to

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