The full name of the EFF Foundation is Electronic-Frontier-Foundation, and its translation is "Electronic Frontier Foundation".

This is an international nonprofit organization that aims to promote digital copyright and law, with a mission to organize education efforts based on challenges that promote public knowledge of the development of computer and communications, based in the United States.

If you really don’t understand the relevant industry, you can use a simpler method to judge whether this foundation is awesome or not and whether there is any practical information. Anyway, if you can search for these three capital letters on Baidu, you will definitely not be an unknown person.

You should know that the three-letter abbreviation pronouns in this world are rampant. Those who are a little less famous will definitely be blocked on Baidu Encyclopedia. The American foundation that can be widely searched on Chinese encyclopedia is no longer small.

However, in order to popularize the law, educate the public, and guide the social and academic trends, this company will often help stand out and fight some public welfare lawsuits.

Most of the time, the lawsuits they fought are to help weak copyright holders, computer software creativity, and algorithm providers protect their rights, that is, to stand on the side of intellectual property holders.

However, occasionally they will take matters into consideration and fire at intellectual property giants and patent gangsters. Especially when these giants abuse their rights at hand, or play the law to expand the scope of their own rights.

In the time and space before Feng Jianxiong's rebirth, from 2009 to 2011, the EFF Foundation filed a representative counterclaim for a group of consumers traced by Apple in the European and American market. (Of course, it is mainly only in the United States, because American laws allow for public interest litigation to be filed on behalf of consumers. In Europe, the situation is very complicated. Not every European country has a public interest litigation system. In countries with no law, EFF cannot force it.)

Then, perhaps a curious reader will ask: What is the original lawsuit against which the counterclaim is targeted?

In fact, that lawsuit is almost exactly the same legally as Apple's lawsuit against Ma Hesha today - Apple encountered a small group of consumers who openly advocated the use of jailbreak phones, and then when Jobs's tyrant broke out, he couldn't rub the sand in his eyes, so he sued all those people in the name of infringement.

However, in the end, the EFF Foundation came forward to take the litigation costs of the defendant and also hired a team of lawyers to file a counterclaim, declaring that those who made Apple IOS system cracking software were of course at fault.

It is the kind of error that can be convicted of the crime of "destructing computer information systems" in China (of course, this crime is not called in the United States).

However, EFF also proposed that those IPHONE mobile phone buyers and consumers who only use cracking software, the freedom to use their mobile phones must not be interfered with. Apple can only use the other party to violate the user agreement and then cancel part of the user's rights within the limits of the breach of contract terms stipulated in the user agreement (such as the warranty rights of the mobile phone, Apple has the right to cancel it because the warranty is a "service right.")

As for those consumers who openly advertised themselves as using jailbreak on Twitter, they promoted how good it is to use jailbreak, and even promoted how many pirated cracked apps were installed after using jailbreak machines, and how much money they saved...

Although these propaganda are immoral, they are also legal.

As long as these advocates do not provide installation packages for jailbreak cracking files, they do not give seeds/links. Instead, they only promote the benefits of jailbreaking, and do not directly provide jailbreaking software services.

Then, consumers within this scale should be protected.

Finally, after nearly a year and a half long lawsuits, this series of counterclaims ended with the victory of the EFF Foundation.

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals finally ruled that citizens have complete property rights over the items they spend money to buy. Property rights are higher than creditor rights, and ownership is higher than claim rights. This is an important part of the sacred and inviolable private property and one of the three cornerstones of capitalist rule of law. No matter when and where, this sacred highest criterion and value rank cannot be denied.

Therefore, Apple lost the case.

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

Of course, the law is sacred.

But it is not certain that those who manipulate and use the law.

In the process of using the law to achieve a seemingly sacred purpose, no one knows whether the motivations of those participants are the sacred goal itself.

Feng Jianxiong, in his previous life, had no way of knowing whether there were any other people behind the case where the EFF Foundation was running around and appealing.

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

For example, Nokia, who was still fighting to the death at that time.

For example, Microsoft is still spending money heavily and not giving up on the WINDOWS-mobile system.

Another example is Samsung.

I don’t know whether these “friendly merchants” provide ammunition and brokers when the foundation is in charge.

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

...

Feng Jianxiong took a deep breath as he walked off the gangway of the Boeing 777 and stepped onto the solid land of San Francisco International Airport.

It's ridiculous to say that he is a rich man with cash flow of hundreds of millions of yuan. He is actually too busy with his career and is the first time he has come to the United States in his life. (The life before his rebirth is not counted)

In contrast, Yu Meiqin had been here before. In order to be a broker for him, she came here again to the front station.

"Why, I'm very disappointed? I didn't smell the air of democracy and freedom, and the smog days in China?" Looking at Feng Jianxiong's excitement, Yu Meiqin, who was beside him, joked and said, "Do you want me to be a tour guide for you? I should be more familiar with Silicon Valley than you, learn and sell it 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 are here to do the serious business."

Because Yu Meiqin had already set up a bridge for him, the basic preparations were done. She rented a luxury villa, bought a car, and hired an entourage. As soon as she left the terminal, a white driver and bodyguard were waiting.

Feng Jianxiong did not give so much details, nor did he ask Yu Meiqin to help him see the house, but just said that he could stay in a hotel or rent a luxury house.

However, the transaction of existing houses in the United States is very fast, and the villas on the market are all the ones that can be moved in with their bags - because the houses here pay 1.5% of the holding tax every year, so the houses are used for living, not for speculation. Either live in it yourself, or transfer the property tax to the rent, and then renovate them for tenants to live in.

But no matter who it is for, someone must live there, otherwise the 1.5% will be free of their own blood every year. It is precisely because of this that the houses you bought here can be moved in immediately, because there must be living people inside before they were sold, and the ghost town does not exist.

(Note: Unless a city like Detroit goes bankrupt and the house valuation falls to the end, then 1.5% is almost equivalent to not having to pay, and it can be empty in ghost towns. In the later generations, many houses in Detroit are listed for sale at super low prices, but the houses that have not been sold are actually just to collect evidence and prove that their house is not valuable and can pay less tax. In fact, it may not necessarily mean that they really want to sell them.

Because according to relevant laws in the United States, how much a house is worth depends on the average valuation price of surrounding blocks. However, if the homeowner believes that the valuation is inflated and he will pay more taxes, he can also list his house online and publicly sell it for a period of time. For example, after 45 days, no one will take over, the municipal department must admit that "this house is not worth more than the public listing price", and allow the homeowner to pay less taxes based on the listing price.)

Whether in Silicon Valley or New York, if you can see a house you buy, but it is vacant there for many years in the form of a rough one - then there is no need to ask, it must be bought by Chinese people. Only people like China who are influenced by the "holding a house does not require cost" civilization will take it for granted and feel 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 concentrated in the prosperous areas of downtown San Francisco, but spreads south along Highway 101.

Mountain View where Google is located, Palo Alto where Apple is located, Stanford where Stanford University is located, and UC Berkeley, are all dragged along Highway 101, and there are also large rural pastoral plots in the middle.

If you don’t care about buying a villa in the Bay Area, you can actually find good products with high cost performance.

"So, this is the 'luxury house' you spent $2 million to find me? I've got you into trouble and slander my money so bad?"

As the white driver took Feng Jianxiong and Yu Meiqin to an abandoned country orchard next to a Highway 101, Feng Jianxiong couldn't help but complain.

This place is more than 30 kilometers south of Mountain View, where Google is located, and is farther away from other core areas of Silicon Valley such as Stanford. 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 grows new kishi oranges! He hasn't worked in the past few years and has been abandoned. The villa is quite trendy and has a sense of technology. It is said that it was newly built by a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur who built the land and used more than one acre of land.

However, the entrepreneur failed a while ago and was about to change the environment. Yu Meiqin found this resource and took the opportunity to help Feng Jianxiong take over.

"Don't be satisfied? Leave it for me if you are not satisfied, I'll buy it." Yu Meiqin was a little angry when she saw Feng Xiong not appreciating.

"Okay, can't I be satisfied?" Feng Jianxiong was still very capable of giving in to the girl on non-principle issues. "Don't I think the capital utilization rate is not high. For the same money, buying a house in China has increased much faster than in the United States."

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

"Is the donation tomorrow ready for me?"

Yu Meiqin said in a buzzing voice: "It's ready - if someone knows that you, a nouveau riche who shaves the money of domestic self-controlled and out of control, donates the money to the American foundation, and you still don't know how to criticize you online!"

"How can I call an American foundation? Look at your enlightenment - this is just a non-profit organization headquartered in the United States but running for the interests of the industry around the world. Besides, I don't have any intention of this. How much donation will definitely be squeezed out more from other beneficiaries."

"Then aren't you afraid of people coming to the country to show off? Do you still have to explain to the online mob after being exposed?"
Chapter completed!