Digital rights, digital wrongs Cory Doctorow's column on DRM
Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart I understand the pressure to support commercial video – but the browser makers can do more to defend free and open software. By Cory Doctorow
Oxford English Dictionary – the future Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: The most significant lexicographic reference work in the English language can be yours digitally – but at a price and not forever
Metadata – a wartime drama Cory Doctorow: A cast of literally thousands, well, three, tell the story of how collecting data about data in no way compromises privacy
The NSA's Prism: why we should care Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: Politicians tell us the innocent need fear nothing from involuntary disclosure, but their actions threaten privacy and more
Data protection in the EU: the certainty of uncertainty Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: When a regulation asserts that some data is 'anonymous', it is disconnected from the best theories in computer science
Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: If online oversharing is a public health problem, then the state's decision to harness it for its own purposes means that huge, powerful forces within government will come to depend on it
3D printed guns are going to create big legal precedents Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: A test case between Cody Wilson and the US government could have implications for regulation of the internet
Trademarks: the good, the bad and the ugly Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: It's time we stopped giving trademark bullies a free pass to tell us what our own words mean
Copyright wars are damaging the health of the internet Cory Doctorow: Those pushing for 'solutions' to piracy risk eroding the net's integrity and freedom from surveillance, censorship and control
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
Internet copyright law has to have public support if it's going to work Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: Brief quotations are fair dealing, but when you pass off someone else's work as your own, you're a plagiarist
Just because something has value doesn't mean it has a price Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow : If every last shred of incidental online value is given a price tag, we'll never harvest the full fruits of our ingenuity
Why the entertainment industry's release strategy creates piracy Cory Doctorow : If companies refuse to release films or TV shows in US and UK at same time, they only have themselves to blame for piracy
Here's what ICT should really teach kids: how to do regular expressions Cory Doctorow: Regexps are part of the fundamental makeup of modern software and can make everyday people's lives much easier
Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access Cory Doctorow : The government wants to make all publicly funded research available – but the same must be demanded of pharmas also
There's no way to stop children viewing porn in Starbucks Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: Filtering doesn't work. It also puts power into censorware firms which help cover up human rights abuse
Giving online customers the chance to pay what they want works Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: The Humble Indie Bundle shows most do the right thing which helps offset the people who don't give a damn
Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: Computers that make calls to check for credit or debit card fraud are infuriating – and they don't even make your money secure
Why Philip Roth needs a secondary source Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: How hard is it to prove online that you are who you say you are? Author Philip Roth had to publish a letter in The New Yorker to satisfy the editors of Wikipedia
Disorganised but effective: how technology lowers transaction costs Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: The most profound social revolutions in human history have arisen whenever a technology comes along that lowers transaction costs for everyone
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