The full name of the EFF Foundation is Electronic-Frontier-Foundation.

It is an international non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes digital copyright and the law with a mission to organize educational efforts that promote public awareness of the challenges and challenges brought about by developments in the field of computing and communications.

If you really don't know about the relevant industry, you can also use a simpler way to judge whether this foundation is awesome or not, and whether it has dry goods - anyway, if you search for these three capital letters on Baidu, you can search for the foundation, and it will definitely not be an unknown and idle person.

You know, the world is flooded with three-letter acronyms. If you are a little less famous, you will definitely be covered on Baidu Encyclopedia. An American foundation that can be commonly searched on a Chinese encyclopedia is not small.

However, for the purpose of popularizing the law, educating the public, and guiding the trend of social and academic trends, this company will often help to fight some public welfare lawsuits.

Most of the time, they fight lawsuits to help weak copyright owners, computer software creators, and algorithm providers defend their rights, that is, they are on the side of intellectual property rights holders.

However, occasionally they will also take matters into account and shoot at those intellectual property giants and patent trolls. Especially when these giants abuse the rights at hand, or play the legal game to expand the scope of interpretation of their own rights.

From 2009 to 2011, the EFF Foundation filed a representative counterclaim for a group of consumers in the European and American markets who were traced back by Apple. (Mostly only in the United States, of course, because U.S. law allows public interest litigation to be filed on behalf of consumers.) In Europe, the situation is complicated, and not every European country has a public interest litigation system. Even in countries where there is no basis for law, the EFF is unlikely to stand out. ）

So, perhaps some curious judges will ask: What is the original lawsuit against which the counterclaim is directed?

In fact, the lawsuit is almost exactly the same as Apple's lawsuit against Ma and Sha today, in legal theory - Apple encountered a small group of consumers who openly promoted the use of jailbroken mobile phones, and then as soon as Jobs became a tyrant and couldn't rub sand in his eyes, he sued all those people in court in the name of infringement.

However, in the end, the EFF Foundation stepped in to shoulder the defendant's litigation costs, and also asked the barristers to file a counterclaim, stating that those who made Apple's IOS system cracking software were of course at fault.

It belongs to the kind of mistake that can be convicted of "sabotage of computer information systems" in China (of course, it is not called this crime in the United States).

HOWEVER, THE EFF ALSO PROPOSES THAT IPHONE BUYERS AND CONSUMERS WHO ONLY USE CRACKED SOFTWARE SHOULD NOT BE INTERFERED WITH IN THEIR FREEDOM TO USE THEIR PHONES. Apple can only cancel part of the user's rights (such as the warranty of the mobile phone, which Apple has the right to cancel, because the warranty is a "service right" because the warranty is a "service right") for the other party's breach of the user agreement. ）

AS FOR THOSE CONSUMERS WHO OPENLY ADVERTISED ON TWITTER THAT THEY USED JAILBROKEN IPHONES, HOW COOL JAILBREAK USERS WERE, AND EVEN HOW MANY PIRATED CRACKED APPS WERE INSTALLED AFTER USING JAILBREAK MACHINES, HOW MUCH MONEY THEY SAVED......

While these propaganda is immoral, it is also legitimate.

As long as these promoters, themselves do not provide the installation package of the jailbreak crack file, do not give the torrent/link. Instead, they only promote the benefits of jailbreaking, and do not directly provide jailbreak software services.

Then, the freedom of consumers within this scale should be protected.

Finally, after nearly a year and a half of protracted litigation, this series of counterclaims ended in the EFF Foundation's victory.

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ultimately ruled that citizens have full property rights to the things they spend money on. Property rights are higher than creditor's rights, and ownership rights are higher than claims rights, which is an important part of the sanctity of private property and one of the three cornerstones of capitalist rule of law. No matter when and where, this sacred highest criterion and value level cannot be denied.

As a result, Apple lost the case.

The tyrant Steve Jobs finally paid the price for his arrogance and lawlessness.

Of course, the law is sacred.

But the people who manipulate and use the law, not necessarily.

In the process of using the law to achieve an ostensibly divine purpose, no one knows whether the motive of those participants is the divine goal itself.

Feng Jianxiong, who was in his previous life, had no way of knowing whether there was anyone else behind the case that the EFF Foundation had been running around to appeal for.

For example, Google wants to win a window for Android.

Another example is Nokia, which was still desperately resisting at the time.

Another example is Microsoft, which is still throwing money at the INDOS-mobile system.

Another example is Samsung.

It is not known whether these "friendly merchants" provided ammunition and brokers for the Foundation when it was in the front.

However, since he has been reborn in this life, and is inevitably in it, Feng Jianxiong will soon be able to unravel these mysteries.

……

As he stepped down the ramp of the Boeing 777 and stepped onto the solid ground of San Francisco International Airport, Feng Jianxiong took a deep breath.

It's ridiculous to say that he is a billionaire with a cash flow of hundreds of millions of yuan, and because he is too busy with his career, he is coming to the United States for the first time in his life. (The life before rebirth does not count)

In contrast, Yu Meiqin had already been here before. This time, in order to be a broker for him, he came to the front station first.

"What, I'm disappointed? I don't smell the 'air of democracy and freedom' what's the difference between the smog in China?" Seeing Feng Jianxiong's distraction, Yu Meiqin on the side also mocked him, "Do you want me to be your tour guide? I should be more familiar with this place in Silicon Valley than you, and I can learn and sell now." ”

"What the hell, you know I'm not that kind of person. Feng Jianxiong denied with a wry smile, "I don't need a 'tour guide' either, we're here to do business." ”

Because Yu Meiqin has already matched him with the front station, the basic preparations are all done. I rented a luxury villa here in Silicon Valley, bought a car, and hired an entourage. As soon as you leave the terminal, white drivers and bodyguards are waiting.

Originally, Feng Jianxiong didn't explain so much, and he didn't ask Yu Meiqin to help him look at the house, just said that he could stay in a hotel or rent a mansion.

However, the existing house transaction in the United States is very fast, and the villas on the market are the kind that are moved in with bags - because the houses here have to pay a 1.5% holding tax every year, so the houses are used to live, not to speculate. Either live in it yourself, or pass the property tax into the rent and then renovate it for the tenant to live in.

But no matter who it is for, someone must live, otherwise the 1.5% will be in vain every year. It is precisely because of this that the houses bought here can be moved in immediately, because there must have been living people in them before they were sold, and ghost towns do not exist.

(Note: Unless a city like Detroit goes bankrupt and the valuation of the house falls to the bottom, then 1.5% is almost equal to no payment, and it can be an empty ghost town.) In the future, many houses in Detroit were listed for sale at ultra-low prices, but they were not sold, in fact, the homeowner wanted to collect evidence and prove that his house was not worth much, and he could pay less tax, but in fact, he did not necessarily really want to sell.

Because according to the relevant laws in the United States, how much a house is worth is originally based on the average valuation price of the surrounding blocks. But if the homeowner thinks that the valuation is inflated and causes him to pay more taxes, he can also list his house online and sell it for a period of time. For example, after 45 days, if no one has taken the offer, then the municipal department has to admit that "the house is not worth more than the public listing price" and allow the homeowner to pay less tax according to the listing price. ）

Whether in Silicon Valley or New York, if you can see a house bought there, but it has been vacant there for years in the form of a blank - then don't ask, it must be bought by Chinese. Only people who have been cultivated by the civilization of "holding a house without cost" like China will take it for granted that the house can be placed there for nothing.

Moreover, the environment of Silicon Valley is different from what most Chinese people imagine - Silicon Valley is not actually concentrated in the downtown area of San Francisco, but spreads all the way south along Highway 101.

Google's Mountain View, Apple's Palo Alto, Stanford, Stanford, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, all dragged along Highway 101, with large rural idyllic plots in between.

If you buy a villa in the Bay Area, if you don't pay attention to the proximity of the workplace, you can still find cost-effective goods.

"So, this is the 'mansion' you spent $2 million on me?

As the white driver sent Feng Jianxiong and Yu Meiqin to an abandoned country orchard next to Highway 101, in a former Buba village with no shops, Feng Jianxiong couldn't help but complain.

It is more than 30 kilometers south of Mountain View, where Google is located, and it is also far away from other core areas of Silicon Valley such as Stanford, so it can be said that there are no popular places within 10 kilometers of the surrounding area.

The owner of the land turned out to be a farmer who grew Sunkist oranges! In the past few years, he has stopped doing it and abandoned it. The villa is quite trendy and technological, and it is said that it was newly built by a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, using more than one acre of land.

It's just that the entrepreneur hit the street a while ago and is ready to change the environment. Yu Meiqin found this resource and took the opportunity to help Feng Jianxiong take over.

"Dissatisfied? Dissatisfied leave it to me, I'll buy it." Yu Meiqin saw that Feng Jianxiong didn't appreciate it, and she was also a little angry.

"Okay, I'm not satisfied. Feng Jianxiong is still very soft on non-principled issues, "I don't think the utilization rate of funds is high." The same money, buying a house in China, has risen much faster than in the United States. ”

He teased Yu Meiqin's loser a little, and then cut back to the point.

"Tomorrow's donation will help me get ready, right?"

Yu Meiqin said in a humming voice: "Get ready - if it is known, you are a nouveau riche who scrapes the money of domestic self-controlled and out-of-control netizens, and actually donates the money to the foundation of the Americans, and I don't know how to spray you on the Internet!"

"How can you call it an American foundation, look at your realization—it's just a non-profit organization based in the United States, but working for the interests of the global industry. Besides, don't I have a plan, and the amount of donation will definitely be squeezed out more from other beneficiaries. ”

"Then aren't you afraid of people going to China to publicize it? Do you have to explain to the Internet mob after being stabbed out?"

"That's not necessary, it's just a matter of secrecy, secrecy. ”