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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]
23 Sep 2014, 12:55 pm
Just this year, a high school principal canceled the school’s summer reading program rather than have students read Little Brother, EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow’s bestselling young adult novel about challenging a dystopian surveillance state. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 2:17 pm
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]
20 Jun 2014, 2:16 pm
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]
20 Jun 2014, 9:59 am
So argues Cory Doctorow. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 11:04 am
Cory Doctorow After the Booker T. [read post]
28 May 2014, 1:26 pm
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
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
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
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
It’s the same license that Cory Doctorow uses with his books. [read post]
6 May 2014, 9:28 am
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
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
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
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
Doctorow’s Warning Two years ago Cory Doctorow identified "the coming war on general purpose computing". [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 2:48 pm
So says Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing, and he appears to be correct. [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]
12 Dec 2013, 12:03 pm
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
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]
