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19 Apr 2016, 4:04 pm
It's a scenario envisioned by EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow in his essay Lockdown: as long as we're using the kinds of general purpose computers that power our phones, laptops, and increasingly everything else, the only way to remove capabilities is by requiring DRM software and other spyware to make sure users are in compliance. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 7:28 am
As our colleague Cory Doctorow pointed out, big content companies could take advantage of that control: Once Apple gets the ability to add DRM, the record industry gets the ability to insist that Apple use it ("A phaser on the mantelpiece in Act One must go off by Act 3" - Pavel Chekov, Star Trek: TOS). [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 10:43 am
In January, EFF separately launched the Apollo 1201 Project, in which author and digital-rights champion Cory Doctorow will work with EFF to repeal laws protecting DRM, assist EFF with DRM-related litigation, and partner with industry to develop viable, legal alternatives to digital restrictions. [read post]
12 May 2016, 10:26 am
In the meantime, here's some links with more detail: History of EME and the covenant at the W3C Interoperability use-cases blocked by EME Open Source Initiative on covenants in EME-like standards Security researchers who support this proposal Sincerely, Cory Doctorow Representative to the W3C Advisory Committee for the Electronic Frontier Foundation Share this: Join EFF [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 6:30 am
Doctorow. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 2:38 pm
Liam: We tried to put material on the locker that would appeal to a wide range of interests, paying special attention to work such as that of [EFF Special Advisor and renowned author] Cory Doctorow and Nina Paley that would highlight the motivation behind our club and the free culture movement. [read post]
20 May 2015, 6:56 am
Cory Doctorow, author, journalist, and co-editor of Boing Boing: "Democracies make their laws in public, not in smoke-filled rooms. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 4:13 pm
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]
26 Jul 2023, 9:34 am
Hosted by renowned science fiction author, activist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow, the EFF Awards ceremony will start at 6:30 pm PT on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023 at the Regency Lodge, 1290 Sutter St. in San Francisco. [read post]
22 May 2014, 4:31 pm
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]
7 Oct 2014, 1:26 pm
As our friend Cory Doctorow has been explaining for years, DRM for books is dangerous for readers, authors and publishers alike. [read post]
22 Dec 2015, 5:15 pm
Drew Wilson, a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow at Free Press, also published podcasts from the summit, as well as a transcript of an interview with EFF’s Cory Doctorow. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 10:30 am
Bird probably did not know that the journalist who wrote the post, Cory Doctorow, has been reporting on and challenging this overly broad law and its harmful consequences, both at Boing Boing and as a Special Adviser on EFF’s Apollo 1201 project, for years. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 10:11 am
Cory Doctorow Apollo 1201 Project Electronic Frontier Foundation Tell HP: Say No to DRM. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 1:25 pm
Image [cc] Cory Doctorow A fellow law librarian pointed me toward a Daily Report article yesterday entitled "Kilpatrick Transforms Library Into Modern Collaboration Hub—With Latte. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 7:28 am
When rumors were circulating about an iPhone 7 with no headphone jack, our colleague Cory Doctorow predicted that big content companies would try to take advantage of that control: “Right now, an insistence on DRM would simply invite the people who wanted to bypass it for legal reasons to use that 3.5mm headphone jack to get at it. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 11:45 pm
The party starts at 8 pm, emceed by Wil Wheaton and Cory Doctorow with music by Midtown Social, Dual Core, and A plus D. [read post]
8 Aug 2022, 9:51 am
Brazil Redux: Short Circuiting Tech-Enabled Dystopia with The Right to RepairSaturday, August 13 at 10:00, Track 1Speakers: Joe Grand, EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry, Paul Roberts, Louis Rossmann, Kyle Wiens Literal Self-Pwning: Why Patients—and Their Advocates—Should Be Encouraged to Hack, Improve, and Mod Med TechSaturday, August 13 at 10:00, Track 1Speakers: EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow, Christian "quaddi" Dameff MD, and… [read post]
13 Mar 2024, 11:22 am
EFF’s Cory Doctorow wrote in 2020 about how big tech monopolies distort our public discourse: “By gathering a lot of data about us, and by applying self-modifying machine-learning algorithms to that data, Big Tech can target us with messages that slip past our critical faculties, changing our minds not with reason, but with a kind of technological mesmerism. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 10:34 am
The writer and activist Cory Doctorow spoke about early reform attempts on the internet, such as copyright, that had resulted in more censorship and harm to minority communities. [read post]
