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Cory quit his day-job: Cory Doctorow is leaving the EFF to be a full-time writer. In this post announcing the move, he does a good job explaining why the EFF matters so much. EFF has a problem: we work on issues before anyone knows that they matter. In 2002, we ...

EFF: RIAA Subpoena Database Query Tool "Concerned that information about your file-sharing username may have been subpoenaed by the RIAA? Check here to see if your username or IP address is on one of the subpoenas filed with the D.C. District Court."

Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system: Tor is an anonymizer on steroids. It was built by the U.S. Navy, of all groups, and is currently maintained by the EFF. Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. ...

TechNews.com's Grokster Case At a Glance: Big Supreme Court case today MGM v. Grokster. This is considered by many to be the showdown in the file sharing and P2P frontier. The ruling here will have huge reverberations on both the entertainment and Internet industries. This article has a good ...

S.D. governor pulls plug on part of library Web site: Our governor, Mike Rounds, ordered some links removed from the youth section of the South Dakota State Library Web site this week because they linked to "inappropriate content." The governor's office isn't identifying the links, but sources say they were ...