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Doctorow: Digital rights, digital wrongs column index - Guardian
Cory Doctorow's column on DRM
Cory Doctorow is a digital activist, science fiction author and co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing. Each fortnight he writes about copy protection, digital rights management (DRM) and the entertainment industry.
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Cory Doctorow: Getting tough on copyright enforcers - guardian July 1 08
I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.
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Cory Doctorow: Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war on spam - Guardian July 15, 08
Every legislative and normative proposal recapitulates the worst mistakes of the spamfight: from Viacom's demand that Google automatically detect copyright-infringing videos while they're being uploaded; to the three-accusations-and-you're-offline proposal from the BPI; to the notion in the G8's Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement of turning copyright holders into judge, jury and executioner for what content can travel online and who can see it.
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With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian - January 14, 2008
Clearly, Facebook is another uber-capitalist experiment: can you make money out of friendship? Can you create communities free of national boundaries - and then sell Coca-Cola to them? Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway.
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Comment is free: Half the story - Talat Hussain - Guardian - Nov. 26, 2007
The whole world agrees that Pakistan can be salvaged only through democracy. But there can be no democracy without free media. And there can be no free media as long Musharraf continues to put himself above the law and the constitution.
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Laugh till you protest: how satire is at the forefront of TV revolution | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited, Declan Walsh, SEPT. 14, 2007
"In the past the best jokes would end up in jail," said Imran Aslam, president of Geo television and author of Pillow Talk. "This is a great departure." (SEPT. 14, 2007 -on Pakistani media BEFORE Nov. 3 martial law. Insightful]
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Case dismissed: behind barbed wire, judges back Musharraf | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited - Declan Walsh - Nov. 23, 2007
[PCO-sworn supreme court on presidential election and emergency - real SC judges re-arrested - "What happens next" summary]
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[Guardian UK] Comment is free: How to save Pakistan by Imran Khan - Nov. 21, 2007
The moment a leader is perceived to be an American stooge, he or she will be like a red rag to a raging bull - and the situation would be further exacerbated [+ Dr. Arif Alvi's action plan re IK's hunger strike in comments]
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Musharraf to quit army - as soon as purged court rules (also Mush's trip to Saudi Arabia, US training tribal leaders against talibans) | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited | Mark Tran and agencies | Nov. 19, 2007
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is expected to turn civilian at the end of the week, once the purged supreme court rubberstamps his re-election. (also Mush's trip to Saudi Arabia, US training tribal leaders against talibans)
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Pakistani police arrest Imran Khan | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited with video - Declan Walsh in Lahore, Mark Tran and agencies - Nov. 14, 2007
Pakistani authorities today charged the opposition politician Imran Khan under the anti-terrorism act after he was arrested at a student demonstration in Lahore.
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Pakistan orders reporters to leave | UK Latest | Guardian Unlimited (Press Association communique) Nov.10, 2007
...The focus of the dispute is a leading article which appeared in the Daily Telegraph, and suggested that Western powers had previously regarded General Musharraf as "our sonofabitch"....
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Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | The wary optimism of 1999 is lost. Today is only gloom - Kamila Shamsie - November 6, 2007
In the English portion of his speech, Musharraf compared himself to Lincoln. A friend of mine found other analogies, texting me to say: "He's like an ageing shogun in a Kurosawa movie, or a bureaucratic King Lear."
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Science Weekly for July 23 from Guardian Unlimited: Podcasts - with link to the mp3 of Blackmore-Dennett interview on Consciousness
Also in the show...Daniel Dennett, on the fundamental principles of consciousness. The interview by Dr. Susan Blackmore for her book, 'Conversations on Consciousness'. ..extended version of the discussion with Prof Dennet as this week's [Listen Now] Scien
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Free data sharing is here to stay | Technology | Guardian Unlimited - Doctorow, 18.09.2007
The information economy is here - but governments and business are still obsessed with 'protecting' information, rather than making it more productive * Cory Doctorow * Guardian Unlimited * Tuesday September 18 2007
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Copy killers | Technology | Guardian Unlimited | Doctorow | 31.07.2007
Digital rights management is a lie concocted to bilk the entertainment industry out of a fortune - it's time to wake up.
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Don't fall for the Potemkin scam | Technology | Guardian Unlimited | Doctorow | 14.08.2007
...In reality, it's bloody hard to get any two technologies to talk to each other successfully. Remember how hard it was to get your new wireless card, printer or DVD recorder to work? Now, imagine that these technologies had been deliberately designed no
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Take suspends Manhunt 2 release from Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog - Keith Stuart - 22/06/2007
"Take 2 Interactive Software has temporarily suspended plans to distribute Manhunt 2 for the Wii and PlayStation platforms while it reviews its options with regard to the recent decisions made by the BBFC and ESRB," the company said in a statement.
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The Karachi ruling party 'run like the mafia' from an office block in London | The Guardian | Declan Walsh in Karachi and Matthew Taylor, June 2, 2007
Yesterday the cricketer turned politician Imran Khan arrived in London to try to have Mr Hussain prosecuted under British anti-terror laws. Three weeks ago gunmen opened fire on a rally in support of ... Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, triggering a day of b
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Comment is free: See no evil? - The Guardian - Cory Doctorow - 06/06/2007
There's an inverse correlation between the regulation of speech and the freedom of a society. Trying to filter the internet is ridiculous and dangerous
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