EFF Rates Which Service Providers Side With Users

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:11AM from the harvesting-goodwill dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued a report grading online service providers for how well they side with users over intellectual property disputes. They looked at sites like YouTube, Imgur, tumblr, and Twitter. "The services could receive a maximum of five stars, based on criteria including publicly documented procedures for responses to DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices, how the services handle trademark disputes, and if the company issued detailed transparency reports." Only two sites got a perfect rating: WordPress and Namecheap. tumblr got the worst score, and Imgur was not far behind. The rest of the sites were in between, though the EFF did give a bit of extra credit to Etsy for its educational guides and Twitter for its transparency reports.

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Re:No NSA bitch rating? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-28 01:20 · Score: 5, Informative

The EFF is deeply involved in the legal fight against National Security Letters. NSL's tie the hands of service providers by their very nature and there is little they can do about any one NSL. But by working with the EFF, they have been able to stand up a strong foundation in the fight to have NSL's declared unconstitutional.
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