Last week the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submitted a lawsuit against the US government for violations of copyright law laid out in the First Amendment – this is the freedom of speech amendment. The case involves the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), introduced in 1998, and more specifically boils down to the DRM technologies designed to tackle piracy – or in the EFF’s view, not tackling piracy at all. The EFF believes that the DMCA and the DRMs involved are unlawfully restricting access to legally-purchased copyright material such as movies and music, as well as the software that devices and appliances are built on. The consequences of this could be huge, as the World Copyright Treaty is based on the…