Legal Niches

Game Developer Not Impressed with The EFF

By pete_gallagher

Atomicboy Software's Brit Clousing takes the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to task in a post on the company's blog.

Entitled 'Why I Don't Like the EFF,' Clousing's post centers on The EFF's support for net neutrality, which he views as that of a 'pro-freeloader / anti-creator stance.'

Clousing's take on the topic comes from the view of a content creator and while he indicates that he does support net neutrality, he states that he does not support it when it involves copyright infringement:

To use a page from the EFF's playbook, perhaps we could say that the EFF is attempting to hijack the Net Neutrality legislation to make the world safer for piracy.

Most of Clousing comments are in direct response to an action letter set up by The EFF for net neutrality backers to send to the Federal Communication Commission.

Clouosing continued:

The net-neutrality bill would allow ISPs to throttle the unlawful distribution of copyrighted works? Gee, it's a good thing the EFF has stuck out their neck to fight against this. Based on the phrasing, it almost seems as if the EFF thinks that piracy should be permitted as a part of 'free speech'. Personally, I actually find it 'deeply problematic' that the EFF thinks throttling copyright-infringement is a problem.

The EFF really needs to straighten out their act and stop going out of their way to side with freeloaders.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 15, 2010 (boomark / email).