The Internet Defense League (IDL) launched what it called...
The Internet Defense League (IDL) launched what it called a “Week-of-Action” campaign Monday to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), IDL said in an email blast Monday. IDL includes Mozilla, WordPress, Reddit, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Demand Progress,…
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Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge. EFF described the campaign in a blog post (http://bit.ly/14RSlaY). Demand Progress was founded by Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide earlier this year after being prosecuted under the CFAA for the unauthorized downloading of scholarly articles. The campaign -- www.fixthecfaa.com -- asks supporters to contact their members of Congress, “call for the defeat of” a House Judiciary Committee draft bill that would “expand and harshen” the CFAA (CD March 27 p5) and “call for reforms to the CFAA that would protect innovators and Internet users by clarifying that terms of service violations are not tantamount to federal crimes.” After Swartz’s suicide, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., introduced Aaron’s Law, which would decriminalize terms-of-service violations.