Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Author Record: Cory Doctorow

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What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM
Phonar: a massive, free photography class
Georgia sues Carl Malamud, calls publishing state laws "terrorism"
OEB 2015 - Opening Plenary - Cory Doctorow
Metacrap: Putting the Torch to Seven Straw-men of the Meta-utopia
Authors at Google: Cory Doctorow
Down and Out in the Magic Kindgom
Sun's Dumbass Trademark Policy
Collaborative, Open Textbook
Microsoft Research DRM Talk
Audio version of Cory Doctorow's DRM talk
The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth
Sony Anti-customer Technology Roundup and Time-line
Copyrighted Fabric: No Selling the Stuff You Make From It
How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community
Adobe Cripples Flash Video with DRM
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
Canada's TV tax / Save local TV squabble explained
How to Destroy the Book
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)
Doctorow's First Law
New Zealand to sneak in Internet disconnection copyright law with Christchurch quake emergency legislation
Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
Empirical proof that Terms of Service are "the biggest lie on the Internet"
Taylor Swift makes a payout to all Universal artists a clause in her new record deal
Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives
World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resigns
One of the net's most important freedom canaries
Google launches a DRM-free audiobook store
Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser
In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis
Understanding Qanon
The Memex Method
India funded a starving kids' app, but not food
Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability
How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms | by Cory Doctorow | Oct, 2022 | Medium
Pluralistic: 'Brand safety' killed Jezebel
Pluralistic: What kind of bubble is AI?
My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024)


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