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20 Jun 2014, 2:16 pm by Bruce E. Boyden
Rebecca Tushnet points to this column by Cory Doctorow arguing that Hachette is being held hostage in its fight with Amazon over e-book versions of its books because of its “single-minded insistence on DRM”: “It’s likely that every Hachette ebook ever sold has been locked with some company’s proprietary DRM, and therein lies the rub. [read post]
28 May 2014, 1:26 pm by Kevin O'Keefe
Business consultant and author, Euan Semple (@euan), upon reading Cory Doctorow’s piece on the privacy concerns of teenagers and the savvy ways the’re learning to maintain their privacy on the internet, wrote this today: At risk of appearing naive, what are we all so afraid of? [read post]
22 May 2014, 4:31 pm by Danny O'Brien
Speakers include Cory Doctorow, Alan Rusbridger, Bruce Schneier, Neil Tennant, Shami Chakribarti, Lord Richard Allan, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Claude Moraes MEP, Ian Brown, Caspar Bowden, Gabrielle Guillemin, and more. [read post]
19 May 2014, 2:25 am by Jeremy
We are glad to announce having two esteemed keynote speakers: Cory Doctorow, a London-based journalist and science fiction author, winner of the Prometheus and Campbell Awards, co-editor of Boing Boing and author of Little Brother and Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an Icelandic poet and member of the Icelandic parliament, internet activist, freedom of information and freedom of speech defender.The programme is of the multi-track variety, details of which you can find here. [read post]
14 May 2014, 1:45 pm by Danny O'Brien
As we have said to the W3C, and Cory Doctorow spells out to Mozilla in this Guardian article, there is much more we can do to fight the negative consequences of DRM than simply attempting to mitigate the damage of its adoption. . [read post]
7 May 2014, 11:39 am by Jonathan Bailey
It’s the same license that Cory Doctorow uses with his books. [read post]
6 May 2014, 9:28 am by Parker Higgins
This point is best expressed by EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow, who has outlined it in two talks about what he describes as the coming wars over general purpose computing. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 4:26 pm by Kevin
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]
20 Jan 2014, 7:27 am by Connie Crosby
When Cory Doctorow picked up on the latest report from The Tyee and wrote about it on the well-known website Boing Boing,  it helped to spread the news across the Internet. [read post]
4 Jan 2014, 7:29 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Via Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow - Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives “Back in 2012, when Canada’s Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first. [read post]
1 Jan 2014, 7:04 am by Graham Smith
Doctorow’s Warning Two years ago Cory Doctorow identified "the coming war on general purpose computing". [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 2:48 pm by Kevin
So says Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing, and he appears to be correct. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 4:49 pm by Parker Higgins
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]
12 Dec 2013, 12:03 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
  Avoiding takedowns based solely on keywords, as happened to Cory Doctorow’s book Homeland which was targeted for mass takedowns based on ownership of the TV show. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 4:13 pm by Parker Higgins
As EFF Fellow and former staff member Cory Doctorow has noted, computers are increasingly devices that we depend on for our own health and safety. [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 5:23 pm by Cindy Cohn and Trevor Timm
–EFF Fellow Cory Doctorow Cory’s right, of course. [read post]
14 Sep 2013, 6:49 am by Frank Pasquale
Woe to the skeptic who counsels there may not be any.In the hands of a Cory Doctorow, we can see a disruption ethic of public spirited dissent. [read post]
30 May 2013, 8:39 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Then, Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing wrote that, "The Texas law is somewhat symbolic (since it won't stop Fed snooping), but it's still an important step toward establishing a better norm in privacy standards for files on cloud-based services." [read post]