Car Wars

A self-driving car is a computer you put your body in. Fiction by Cory Doctorow

Secure the Internet

Software engineers must close the loophole used to intercept online communications

De cómo los derechos de autor deberían cambiar para ajustarse a la tecnología: (o, ¿desde cuándo es buena idea dejar que las discográficas diseñen los tocadiscos?. O de cómo arreglar los derechos de autor y salvar internet, la sociedad civil y la mayor biblioteca de la historia)

Cory Doctorow (Toronto, 1971), novelista y activista digital, visitó el CBA en enero de 2005 con motivo de la presentación pública de las licencias Creative Commons España. En este artículo, trascripción revisada de la conferencia que pronunció entonces, expone sus argumentos a favor de una transformación de la legislación sobre la propiedad intelectual para que se ajuste a las tecnologías de la comunicación contemporáneas

Arcadia Seminars, 3rd Nov 2009

The Arcadia Programme has been generously funded by a Grant from the Arcadia Fund http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk

Enshittification : How the Internet Went Bad and How to Get it Back

The collapse of the internet into "five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four" wasn't inevitable. From privacy to harassment to garden-variety ripoffs, the internet's degradation was the result of identifiable policy choices that can - and must - be reversed. Learn how they broke the internet - and how we can fix it.Non UBCUnreviewedFacult

Content: selected essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future

Hailed by Bruce Sterling as "a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek," this is the first collection of Cory Doctorow\u27s articles, essays, and polemics. Irreverently championing free speech and universal access to information - even if it?s just a free download of the newest Britney Spears MP3 - he leads off with a mutinous talk given at Microsoft on digital rights management, insisting that they stop treating their customers as criminals. Readers will discover how America chose Happy Meal toys over copyright, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how the Internet is basically just a giant Xerox machine, why Wikipedia is a poor cousin of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and how to enjoy free e-books. Practicing what he preaches, all of the author?s books, including this one, are simultaneously released in print and on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their reuse and sharing. He argues persuasively that this practice has considerably increased his sales by enlisting readers to promote his work