Thursday, January 22, 2015

Project: Apollo 1201 Project

Apollo 1201 Project

The Apollo 1201 Project is a mission lead by Cory Doctorow from within the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to abolish the practice of using digital rights management (DRM) inside the next decade.  The "Apollo 1201" title of the project is a reference to the Apollo Moon missions and section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which governs citizens' rights to unlock DRM.
The details of the project are still under wraps, but in broad strokes, we will use the incredible skills of EFF’s lawyers, technologists, and policy specialists to challenge the law that protects DRM, section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and, in so doing, set in motion a chain of events that will discredit the whole idea of designing computers to control their owners, for any purpose.

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