In addtition to protecting online privacy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is also committed to preserving freedom of speech on the Internet. So when Sony filed suit against researchers who found and published details about security gaps in the company's PlayStation 3 that allow users to run Linux on their machines despite Sony's efforts to prevent that, the EFF was quick to speak out about it.
But let me back up a bit. Sony filed suit under the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and asked the court to impound everything used to circumvent Sony's technology

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