13 month ago
plasticbag : Nice Splashcast interview by Chris Valance of Cory Doctorow on whether ISPs should be responsible for identifying copyrighted works that go through their servers - Good, solid bits of argument in there. Cory speaks extremely well on these matters, clearly and without umming or ahhing. Unlike myself!
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15 month ago
Linkorama : DRM vendors are pushing the impossible - There are some fundamental truths in the universe. We cannot travel faster than light, and we cannot make a copy protection system that is uncrackable. The only question is: how long will paying customers stay when the companies they're buying from treat
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19 month ago
philgyford : Boing Boing: BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM - I often find Cory's anti-DRM rants too much. But sometimes I feel as angry as he does and it all seems quite appropriate. I like the BBC and I don't want to see idiots slowly destroy it.
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20 month ago
deusx : xkcd - Blagofaire - "Did bloggers really wear red capes and goggles and blog from high-altitude balloons? ... No! Well, Cory Doctorow does, but nobody else."
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22 month ago
Rod Begbie : Pipes: Boing Boing depimpifier - My best pipe so far -- Boing Boing's RSS feed, but without Cory and Xeni's constant self-promotion, and Mark F's plugs for Make Magazine. #
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27 month ago
43folders : Pages tagged with "Can of Cory" - When the target's right, I _love_ seeing the Can of Cory get opened!
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29 month ago
tehu : The Unswitch Saga: Get the T-Shirt - I want this one.
wearehugh : The Tao of Mac - blog/2006-07-04
deusx : The Tao of Mac - blog/2006-07-04 - "Since it's the 4th of July and everyone is relaxing anyway, I thought I'd do something different regarding the Mark/Ubuntu/Cory thing:"
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29 month ago
jimray : The unswitch t-shirt - "I nearly switched to Ubuntu when Mark did..."
Rod Begbie : The Tao of Mac - The Unswitch Saga: Get The T-Shirt - "I nearly switched to Ubuntu when Mark did..." hee. [via] #
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30 month ago
merlinmann : cory doctorow visits a radio shack - "Hmmph. I certainly hope that doorbell isn’t keeping private records of who enters and exits the store."
Rod Begbie : cory doctorow visits a radio shack - "Is the source code available for this phone? Not that I plan to do anything personally right now with the source, but I’d like to see it. Now, if possible, my good man. Chop chop!" [via] #
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too - "Under the DCPA proposal, digital media technologies would be restricted to using technologies that had been certified by the FCC as being not unduly disruptive to entertainment industry business-models."
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35 month ago
Rod Begbie : Cory Doctorow Hypocrisy Watch: New Firefox "feature" eases spying on users - Read this Cory rant about a proposed Firefox feature that would allow advertisers to track click throughs in an opt-outable manner, then count the number of undisclosed un-opt-outable click-through mechanisms in use by the horde of advertising links litte #
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Cory Doctorow details another fight he's had with Andrew Orlowski, and runs through how different it is to a fight he had with Wikipedia - It's an interesting article that again explores Orlowski's continued journalistic license and the hypocrisy of many of his attacks on Wikipedia.
deusx : Boing Boing: Correcting the Record: Wikipedia vs The Register - "The Reg is the Wikipedia vandal you can't revert."
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37 month ago
Rod Begbie : Boing Boing: iTunes creates a security hole? - *Jawdroppingly* idiotic rant from Cory, trying to draw anti-DRM points from a completely non-DRM-related security flaw in iTunes. Is it my imagination, or is his signal to ranting-clueless-fuckwit ratio dropping of late? #
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39 month ago
philgyford : Open Tech 2005 - a photoset on Flickr - Lovely medium-format photos of geeks by Matt Locke. Includes me, but my favourites are: Coates, Hammond, Nelson, Webb.
plasticbag : Matt Locke does some black & white portraits of the usual suspects (plus Ted Nelson) at this year's Open Tech - Webb comes off looking best, as usual. I look like a dribbling freak...
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40 month ago
WillPate : Cory Doctorow: On Marketing Books - "The biggest threat we face isn't piracy, it's obscurity."
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40 month ago
Andy Baio : John Gruber on Apple's Trusted Computing - a rebuttal to Cory Doctorow's essay
cameron : Daring Fireball: Trusted - John clears up this Apple TPM nonsense and schools Mr. Doctorow
jimray : Daring Fireball: Trusted - Gruber's reply to Cory Doctorow's "Palladium in your Mac" rant - I'm glad someone pointed out that TPM support exists in the Linux kernel
plasticbag : In which Daring Fireball takes Cory to task for a post on Apple and Trusted Computing - Interesting one this - Cory treats any technology in his machines that could potentially be used to limit his freedoms as an invasion and an imminent danger, John points out that it's not in Apple's interest to utilise it. My head's with John, my heart's
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40 month ago
Andy Baio : Cory Doctorow on Apple's apparent switch to "Trusted Computing" CPU DRM - for everything Apple does right, a huge step in the wrong direction
Nelson Minar : MacOS w/DRM kernel? - Report that they're using the odious "trusted computing" from Intel
jkottke : Cory Doctorow to Apple Computer: put Trusted Computing in your kernel and I'm done as your customer - This doesn't look promising. You've got a good thing going here, Apple...don't fuck it up.
Isofarro : Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? - Long-time Apple fan Cory Doctorow threatens to switch if Apple ships Mactel with DRM
Rod Begbie : Boing Boing: Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? (July 2005) - Cory Doctorow's spectacularly pant-pissy and, with hindsight, almost 100% inaccurate flameout about Apple including a TPM module. I wonder if he's had the tattoo lasered-off yet. #
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42 month ago
plasticbag : In which the Doctorovian sees God in a cup of chocolate - He's hanging out in Florence with Ben Hammersley and drinking hot chocolate until he falls into a stupor. Lucky bastard.
jkottke : Cory Doctorow discovers bliss in Mexican drinking chocolate - Having had food experiences like this, I can relate to the feeling.
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43 month ago
Andy Baio : Broadcast Flag struck down by Appeals Court! - "nothing has changed to give the FCC the authority it now claims"
jimray : Appeals court overturns FCC mandated broadcast flag - Wow, there's hope that technology can exist without being beholden to the overlords of entertainment
plasticbag : The DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals strikes down the US Broadcast Flag - "And to the studio execs whom I faced across the table, who shouted at us and excluded us and told us that this was going to happen no matter what: NEENER NEENER NEENER."
jkottke : The stupid and ridiculous Broadcast Flag was struck down in US Appeals Court on Friday - Congratulations to the EFF and Cory on this victory.
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45 month ago
kayodeok : How To Save The Internet - "Treat End Users Like the Dummies They Are"
plasticbag : Ludicrous bollocks about 'how to save the internet' from a whole range of people I would feel on-the-whole quite comfortable giving unpleasant labels - If this is the kind of stuff that Cory Doctorow is dealing with on a daily basis, I guess I can understand why he's set himself up so strongly in opposition
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47 month ago
plasticbag : BoingBoing releases five years of posts for people to download and muck around with, and cites me as an inspiration. Aw...... - "To celebrate our first half-decade as a blog, we've put together a single html file containing 17,000+ posts (every post as of yesterday mid-day) in Movable Type export format."
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47 month ago
plasticbag : Awesome graphing analysis of BoingBoing reveals a surprising obsession with the BBC... - I love this little browsable app - it gives a real perspective on what the Boingers are interested in. Also it's more evidence that Cory either has too much energy or not enough to do...
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48 month ago
Paul Hammond : Blackbeltjones/work: Tony Stark on Etech - I feel like I've been around those blocks quite a few times now, and I want some genuine outbreaks of the future
plasticbag : Mr Jones on Tony Stark on ETech - "The line up for 2005's Etech has been posted, and so far it seems like the same people talking about the same pet subjects. Not many 'genuine outbreaks of the future' so far." Plus, I'm a Beatle. Which is nice.
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plasticbag : Buzz Anderson writes a measured response to some of the recent hysteria over Apple's use of DRM - I find many people's positions around this stuff incomprehensibly absolutist. There are too many different perspectives to expect any eventual position to be completely free of compromise, accomodation or cost for someone involved.
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