The EFF has been studying the privacy issues associated with this new form of surveillance.
The EFF would help Mr Auernheimer prepare an appeal against the sentence, she said.
Mr Dotcom told TorrentFreak that the Apple co-founder was "totally supportive" of the efforts of the EFF.
The EFF is prepared to battle the case to the Supreme Court by next year if need be.
This has raised more than a few questions from the EFF, as well as other privacy advocates and Congress.
FORBES: Amazon Allays EFF Privacy Fears Over Its Silk Browser
After all, the EFF argues, if you buy a DVD, why can't you play it on any machine you want?
This follows an earlier ruling where the trial judge sided with Apple, after which the EFF intervened and appealed the case.
The EFF said it hoped to reform the Computer Fraud and Misuse Act in the wake of Mr Swartz's prosecution and subsequent suicide.
BBC: MIT consults staff and students over Aaron Swartz probe
Google, for its part, got higher marks from the EFF for its Transparency Report site that maps and tracks government requests for data.
FORBES: Apple, Skype, Verizon, Other Firms Flunk Privacy Report Card
"We've asked the court to implement a procedure for all consumers, not just our client, to recover their data, " the EFF told technology news site Ars Technica.
Often, said the EFF, the weakest link was an ISP, a hosting company or a website that acted as a store front or aggregator for many different creators.
When we spoke to the Electronic Frontier Foundation about Google Drive's terms of service, the EFF found little about them that was more suspicious than in any other similar cloud service.
That alarmed the EFF, which contacted the hosting providers.
FORBES: EFF Launches MegaRetrieval To Help Users Save Their Megaupload Data
In a statement about the row, the EFF said it was "outrageous" for Games Workshop to claim any rights over a term that had been in wide use in fiction since the 1930s.
Many simply removed the disputed content immediately to stay "neutral" and avoid trouble, said the EFF, but that made it hard for those on the end of trademark claims to mount a challenge.
Legalese is notably absent, with credit for that going to Lauren Gelman, a legal consultant who's previously worked with the likes of the EFF -- a member, like Reddit, of the Internet Defense League.
The exemption is one of a record six granted by the Copyright Office on Wednesday, and was announced so unexpectedly, that even the EFF's Fred von Lohmann admitted that he was "surprised and pleased" by the development.
ENGADGET: Copyright Office rules that consumers can legally unlock cellphones
"Weev is facing more than three years in prison because he pointed out that a company failed to protect its users' data, even though his actions didn't harm anyone, " said Marcia Hofmann, an attorney at the EFF.
According to the Electronic Freedom Foundation, social networks are being used by federal investigators, and last week the privacy organization released a 38-page PDF training course (obtained through the Federal Freedom of Information Act) that the EFF said was used for conducting investigations via social networks.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), now making its way back into the House of Representatives is a bill that was first introduced and passed by the House in 2011 but failed to gain traction in Senate, due to heavy criticism from civil liberties groups like the ACLU and the EFF.
We spoke with Julie Samuels of the EFF, who explained that filing for a declaratory judgment could theoretically enable NYT and OpinionLabs to have trials held in California and Illinois, where the declaratory judgments were filed, instead of the Eastern District of Texas -- the notoriously plaintiff-friendly court where Lodsys filed its suit against seven devs on May 31st.
ENGADGET: New York Times, OpinionLab sue Lodsys seeking declaratory judgement
More than 100 women have promised to join the 'Eff Off, Hef' protest at the launch of the club.
BBC: Playboy Bunnies: Modern feminists or 'club decoration'?
From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
Ditto's situation "shows the real harm" of a suit "and puts a face to the story, " says Julie Samuels, an EFF staff attorney who is also the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents, a position at EFF funded by the billionaire entrepreneur.
Because the real EFF has averaged minus 0.12% per year since 2002.
FORBES: Real U.S. Interest Rates Deeper Below Zero Than Even In 1970s
The ACLU EFF is currently trying to fight that last one, defending a man who had two laptops and a camera taken from him while trying to cross the Mexican border.
Read the full EFF research paper here.
FORBES: We're all being tracked all the time. Is it necessary?
When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense.
应用推荐