Category Archives: Fair Use Copy Prevention

EFF Makes “Open” BPDG Activities Truly Open

The EFF has started a weblog, Consensus At Lawyerpoint, that covers the ongoing “open” activities of the Copy Protection “Technical” Working Group.

What is the BPDG?

The BPDG is a coalition of Hollywood studios and technology companies that are ready to control our technological future, in the name of digital television, if you let them.

How might they control our technological future? By insisting upon airy fairy “standards” that can only be complied with via business deals when the entertainment monopolies decide that the price is right.