Today, a federal judge will hear arguments that will determine whether or not e-voting manufacturer Diebold Systems can use the DMCA to force ‘Net users into removing links to online discussion archives stolen from Diebold earlier this year. Those archives contain dialogue in which Diebold employees talk online about problems with the company’s e-voting products.
In the case being heard today, the nonprofit ISP known as Online Policy Group (OPG) and two students from Swarthmore College argue Diebold is exploiting copyright law in order to silence criticisms about the security and reliability of their digital voting systems. Representing them: The EFF and the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society Cyberlaw. Last week, I caught up with Online Policy Group (OPG) Colocation Director and Board member David Weekly for a quick IM chat on the case, which you can read in entirety here.