DRM products are defective by design. Time to tell users what they're buying
Cory Doctorow in Los Angeles
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling for the labelling of products encumbered with digital rights management. It’s increasingly important as we trust technology with our lives
May 2016
Why the future of web browsers belongs to the biggest tech firms
Cory Doctorow in Los Angeles
Changes made to browser standards will make it harder for new companies to disrupt the status quo and cement the power of Google and Apple
May 2015
Keurig takes steps towards abandoning coffee-pod DRM
Reintroduction of ‘My K-Cup’ allows users to once again make whatever coffee they want
February 2015
Go digital by all means, but don't bring the venture capitalists in to do it
Cory Doctorow
For centuries we the taxpayers have paid to maintain the nation’s treasures and institutions. It would be madness to hand over our archives now
January 2015
EFF criticises Apple for 'outrageous' terms in iOS developer agreement
Digital rights body is launching its new app for Android alone, claiming Apple’s policies are ‘bad for developers and users alike’
December 2014
How to hack your … espresso machine
Some coffee makers use digital trickery to stop caffeine addicts inserting generic pods, but one hacker has perked up with a one-shot solution
November 2014
Ebooks: the new reading
Digital rights management: it’s not as if wanting to read books is a crime
You don’t have to be an internet pirate to think that certain publishers’ DRM provisions verge on the overzealous, writes James Bridle
July 2014
Amazon's comixology introduces DRM-free downloads
Notably absent are Marvel and DC, though users can download files from Friday, including The Walking Dead, The Darkness and Sex Criminals. By Alex Hern
December 2013
Amazon accidentally removes Disney Christmas special from owners' accounts
Disney'sPrep & Landing has been removed from customers' accounts so that Disney can show the film exclusively on its own channel. By Alex Hern
June 2013
Ebooks: the new reading
Digital rights protection and the future of writing
SiDiM, an ingenious new rights protections system, may point the way to the experimental literature of the future, writes James Bridle
Newsbucket
Boot up: ParaShoot, Facebook news reader, YouTube channels chart, Apple users' worth and more
Stuart Dredge: Plus a study of filesharers, Songbird sings its last, Minecraft creator's email advice, and more
DRM and HTML5: it's now or never for the Open Web
Harry Halpin: A meeting next Monday of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will consider whether digital rights management should be part of the HTML5 web standard. But what's your opinion?
May 2013
Science Weekly
Science Weekly podcast: Cory Doctorow on an internet that sets us free
Author and web activist Cory Doctorow delivers the 2013 Sense About Science lecture
March 2013
Digital rights, digital wrongs
What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow: Adding DRM to the HTML standard will have far-reaching effects, incompatible with the W3C's most important policies
September 2012
What does it mean to own a digital file?
Felix Cohen
Felix Cohen: A rumour that Bruce Willis was planning to sue Apple because he couldn't bequeath his £40k iTunes collection strikes a nerve
July 2012
Blog
Academic integrity 2.0: maintaining values and openness in a digital world
Friday 6 July at 12 BST: Join our panel to explore the challenges of drafting and implementing policy on plagiarism and copyright management in the internet age
May 2012
From Pottermore to Frankenstein, a new kind of monster is being created
Claire Armitstead
Digital rights, digital wrongs
Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers
Cory Doctorow
April 2012
Ask Jack
Converting audio CDs into digital files
Games blog
Xbox 720 rumours: Blu-ray drive and always-on internet?
