Diebold Systems, a $2 billion company that makes most of its money by manufacturing ATM machines but most of its headlines by producing electronic voting devices, found itself in court Monday for alleged abuse of copyright protections created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The lawsuit filed by two Swarthmore College students and an ISP seeks compensation from the North Canton, Ohio, company for improperly threatening the Internet connectivity of anyone who published or linked to electronic documents disclosing flaws in Diebold’s voting machines.
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Activists Seek Damages from Diebold over Copyright Abuse
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. February 10, 2004 07:14 AMDiebold Systems, a $2 billion company that makes most of its money by manufacturing ATM machines but most of its headlines by producing electronic voting devices, found itself in court Monday for alleged abuse of copyright protections created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The lawsuit filed by two Swarthmore College students and an ISP seeks compensation from the North Canton, Ohio, company for improperly threatening the Internet connectivity of anyone who published or linked to electronic documents disclosing flaws in Diebold’s voting machines.