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So is the government actually suing this guy or is the EFF just asking a court to say they can't in the future?
by vanattab 10y ago
So is the government actually suing this guy or is the EFF just asking a court to say they can't in the future?
- Esau 10y agoFrom what I gather, this is an attempt to change the law by challenging its constitutional legitimacy in court.
- dogma1138 10y agoCurrently not, he has also already received an exemption from the library of congress. Matthew Green filed a lawsuit to strike down section 1201 of the DMCA. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/07/28/statement-on-dmca-lawsuit/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/07/28/statemen...
- tptacek 10y agoNo, nor was it ever going to. This EFF action is legit, and so is Matthew Green, but the controversy here is entirely synthetic. What's important to understand about the US court system is that it is by design hugely powerful and subject to almost no outside oversight, but --- because of that power, and the desire not to have Presidents appointing panels of philosopher-kings --- the courts are only allowed to hear cases about live controversies. So if you're using the courts as an instrument of policy change, the name of the game is finding a favorable live controversy.