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13 Jul 2015, 7:16 am
Or as Cory Doctorow put it in an e-mail: If indeed the House of Saud—for example—demands a high degree of network censorship, then MSFT is acting as a agent of Wahhabism, enforcing the autocratic dictates of a repressive regime against its neighbors simply because they can't be bothered to lift a finger not to.While a Microsoft representative told me that users in those countries can simply change their market location in their user settings, they… [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 4:49 pm
Homeland, by Cory Doctorow In this highly-anticipated sequel to the young-adult bestseller "Little Brother," EFF Fellow Cory Doctorow takes our protagonist Marcus to the next level, weaving together straight-from-the-news plotlines that include a cache of 800,000 top secret government documents and a cutting-edge local political campaign. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 4:30 pm
Speakers: Christopher Noessel, Designer, IBM Cory Doctorow, Apollo 1201, Electronic Frontier Foundation Malka Older, Author, Self-employed Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy Research, AI Now Institute Thanks for your help! [read post]
1 Jan 2014, 7:04 am
Doctorow’s Warning Two years ago Cory Doctorow identified "the coming war on general purpose computing". [read post]
22 Dec 2014, 3:06 pm
"Information Doesn't Want To Be Free" by Cory Doctorow Starting from the title, "Information Doesn't Want To Be Free" is a provocative take from well-known copyfighter (and EFF Fellow) Cory Doctorow. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 1:14 am
Update: Cory Doctorow claims to have received leaked information about the specifics of the Digital Economy Bill. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 8:24 pm
” The current platforms are either unusable or on their way to unusability, caught up in their individual yet identical cycles of what Cory Doctorow diagnosed as “enshittification“… [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 7:55 am
Here’s Cory Doctorow’s hypothesis: I think it all comes down to the stuff in the DVD-CCA spec that allows DVD creators to flag sequences as unskippable: that’s such an attractive nuisance, it’s bound to attract every hard-sell marketer and power-tripping fool in any media company, who will eventually colonize it with so much crapola that it comes just short of destroying the possibility that anyone will voluntarily pay for the product. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 11:33 pm
"Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing writes:"I'm proud to have joined Wesabe's advisory board -- Marc's way sharp, and Wesabe's a damned cool idea. [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 2:52 pm
There’s also very good analysis from Cory Doctorow; another very good analysis from Tobias Bucknell; yet another very good analysis from Scott Westerfield (and there are more good analyses out there); a funny photoshopped picture at Engadget; and of course calls for revolution from a variety of folks, such as Tobias Bucknell. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 12:33 pm
But a rec letter for a different student came up as Cory Doctorow. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 4:00 am
For something that’s still mostly speculation (both Michael and Howard acknowledge not yet having seen the actual contents of the upcoming copyright reform Bill), there has a remarkable outpouring of interest from numerous individuals on the issue of Canadian copyright reform, not the least of which is: The Facebook group Fair Copyright for Canada which now has over 12,500 members; The Globe and Mail’s article yesterday: New copyright law starts Web storm; Cory… [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 1:00 pm
Founded in April, after a massively successful Kickstarter campaign that earned them 350 percent of their $15,000 (£9,500) goal and kudos from authors like Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow and Ken McLeod, Singularity & Co hasn't always had the easiest time unraveling vintage sci-fi's copyright issues. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 5:43 am
Second, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow refers to Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comment that privacy isn't important, and Bruce Schneier's brilliant response to that as follows: Google CEO Eric Schmidt says privacy isn't important, and if you want to keep something private, "maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" (in other words, "innocent people have nothing to hide. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 5:28 pm
Over 300 authors including Neil Gaiman, Alok Menon, Naomi Klein, Saul Williams, Hanif Abdurraqib, Lawrence Lessig, Chuck Wendig, and Cory Doctorow have released an open letter in support of the continued role of libraries in the digital age. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 4:26 pm
They might just shrug off the potential copyright infringement suit, perhaps inspired by Cory Doctorow's critique of permissions culture. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 6:49 am
As a followup, some conference participants wrote reflections about the materials, including Cory Doctorow, Eric Goldman, Mike Masnick, Margaret O’Mara, Sarita Schoenebeck, and T.L. [read post]
11 May 2010, 9:51 am
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) provides legal education materials in their Legal Education Commons, using the Attribution-ShareAlike license Science fiction writer Cory Doctorow just released his latest novel “For the Win” under a license that lets you read it for free and remix it for personal use If you’re wondering how to use Creative Commons in your organization, or if you’re confused about the different license schemes,… [read post]
18 May 2009, 3:51 am
On a smilar note, Techdirt has picked up on Cory Doctorow’s plea for some sort of fan-use copyright exception. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 4:26 pm
Don't miss this chance to win a copy of the book that author Cory Doctorow called "a genuinely funny and extremely weird tour through the world's dumbest rules," and that the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice called "the most hilarious book we have ever forbidden the reading of." [read post]
