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Cory's DRM talk

Cory's DRM talk 06/19/2004 12:03 AM

Here's the great thing about the public domain, I can grab Anil's copy of Cory's HTMLized talk, improve the readability (to me) and post it here.

Like other interesting public domain texts, I bet it eventually shows up on a t-shirt at the next tech conference (insert sound of a thousand keys punching up Photoshop and cafepress.com).

Cory's DRM talk in Swedish

Cory's DRM talk in Swedish 07/27/2004 07:54 AM
Ulf Benjaminsson has translated my DRM talk into Swedish: Link

Cory's DRM talk in Hungarian

Cory's DRM talk in Hungarian 08/09/2004 07:53 AM
Karoly Negyesi has translated my Microsoft DRM Talk into Hungarian. I've been corresponding this morning with two translators working on different Spanish versions -- once those are posted, the total number of translations will be nine -- including two Italian and two Spanish versions. This is pretty cool. Link (Thanks, Karoly!)

Cory's DRM talk in pig-latin

Cory's DRM talk in pig-latin 09/01/2004 01:43 PM
Cory Doctorow: Scotto has converted my Microsoft DRM talk into pig-latin. Link

Cory's DRM talk in Finnish

Cory's DRM talk in Finnish 08/31/2004 11:39 AM
Cory Doctorow: Herkko Hietanen, Tero Tilus, Antti Vähä-Sipilä and Kuisma Lappalainen from EF Finland have translated my Microsoft DRM talk into Finnish, bringing the total number of translations up to 10 (with two more that I know of underway). Freaking cool. Link

Cory's DRM talk in Danish

Cory's DRM talk in Danish 08/12/2004 11:58 PM
Kim Pedersen has translated my Microsoft DRM talk into Danish. Link

Cory's DRM talk as a print-centric PDF

Cory's DRM talk as a print-centric PDF 09/21/2004 08:37 AM
Cory Doctorow: Change This, the org that publishes manifestos on the Web as print-centric, beautifully laid-out PDFs, has republished my Microsoft DRM speech as a printable, laid-out, typographically sophisticated and pretty PDF. How cool! Link

Cory's copyright talk video from UCSD

Cory's copyright talk video from UCSD 04/14/2005 12:47 PM
Cory Doctorow: I gave a talk on copyright reform last month to librarians and other interested parties at the University of California at San Diego. The video's online now:

Doctorow talked about Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the new Access to Knowledge movement underway to safeguard the rights of archivists, disabled people, and educators. This movement has been successful in helping to create a development agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). For some background see "WIPO to convene meetings on ‘development agenda’".

Link (Thanks, James!)

Cory's talk from ETECH: All Complex
Ecosystems Have Parasites

Cory's talk from ETECH: All Complex
Ecosystems Have Parasites 03/17/2005 03:56 AM
Cory Doctorow: I've just given my speech at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego. The talk was called Al l Complex Ecoystems Have Parasites (a line I nicked from my friend Kathryn Myronuk). As with last year's talk, I've dedicated this one to the public domain and put it online.

CD has a rich ecosystem, filled with parasites -- entrepreneurial organisms that move to fill every available niche. If you spent a thousand bucks on CDs ten years ago, the ecosystem for CDs would reward you handsomely. In the intervening decade, parasites who have found an opportunity to suck value out of the products on offer from the labels and the dupe houses by offering you the tools to convert your CDs to ring-tones, karaoke, MP3s, MP3s on iPods and other players, MP3s on CDs that hold a thousand percent more music -- and on and on.

DVDs live in a simpler, slower ecosystem, like a terrarium in a bottle where a million species have been pared away to a manageable handful. DVDs pay no such dividend. A thousand dollars' worth of ten-year old DVDs are good for just what they were good for ten years ago: watching. You can't put your kid into her favorite cartoon, you can't downsample the video to something that plays on your phone, and you certainly can't lawfully make a hard-drive-based jukebox from your discs.

Link

Distributed audiobook for Down and Out

Distributed audiobook for Down and Out 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Jill Smith has begun a distributed audiobook project for my novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, whose new, liberal Creative Commons license allows for exactly this kind of mishegas (see the distributed audiobook project for Lessig's Free Culture for an example of how well this can work). She's recorded a reading of the prologue and posted it to the Internet Archive's public submission area, where open-licensed material is hosted for free.

I'm immensely gratified by this -- audiobooks are my favorite nontextual medium for storytelling and I can't fall asleep at night without one. I would love for others to take Jill's lead and finish it out. Link (Thanks Jill!)

Audiobook Studio 3 released

Audiobook Studio 3 released 11/03/2003 05:28 AM
Alexander Wilson Studios today announced the release of Audiobook Studio 3 (formerly AudioBookMaker), a Mac OS X application that helps users create dynamic digital "audiobook" audio files using only text files and Mac OS X's built-in text-to-speech capabilities...

Something for Nothing: The Free Culture
AudioBook Project

Something for Nothing: The Free Culture
AudioBook Project 05/25/2004 02:43 PM

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Bill of Rights free MP3 audiobook

Bill of Rights free MP3 audiobook 12/27/2004 10:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: For free on TellTale Weekly, a website that produces high-quality audiobooks from public domain texts: an MP3 reading of the Bill of Rights. Link

Proposal: Distributed audiobook of US
Constitution?

Proposal: Distributed audiobook of US
Constitution? 06/09/2004 01:01 AM
Following up on this earlier Boingboing post about a downloadable Constitution for your iPod, the EFF's Jason Schultz says, "How cool would it to start an audio project having famous lawyers/judges reading various parts of the U.S. Constitution for download, similar to the distributed audio project for Lessig's latest book?"

Sounds like a great idea to me. Has this been done before? No? Any takers?

Streaming AudioBook of Lessig's "Free
Culture"

Streaming AudioBook of Lessig's "Free
Culture" 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
Streaming AudioBook of Lessig's "Free Culture"
http://www.turnstyle.org/ FreeCulture/

On Thursday, March 25, 2004; Lawrence Lessig's new book "Free Culture" was released to the world as a printed hardcover as well as a free download, under a Creative Commons license. On Friday, A. K. M. Adam asked a simple question: "Anyone feel like recording a chapter of Lawrence Lessig's new book?" By Saturday, contributions were coming in from around the world. Inspired by Eric Rice, Scott Matthews whipped up this site with his MP3 juke/server software, Andromeda.

London's toilets in audiobook form for
iPod

London's toilets in audiobook form for
iPod 07/25/2004 02:02 PM
pPod is a spoken-word iPod based guide to the public toilets of London.

pPod combines text, spoken word audio, and music to deliver a guide to London’s public loos – truly a convenience for iPod users on the move! Entertaining audio reviews and even accompanying sound tracks such as Handel’s ‘Water Music’ and ‘Cosmic Winds’ will help users to locate their nearest (and loveliest!) loos.

Link (Thanks, Alistair!)

Audiobook Studio 3 gains Panther
support, more

Audiobook Studio 3 gains Panther
support, more 11/03/2003 08:59 AM
Alexander Wilson Studios has released Audiobook Studio 3, a major update to its Mac OS X application to help users create digital "audiobooks." The new version adds support for Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" and some new features as well.

Del audiobook de "Free Culture" al
audiolibro de "Cultura Libre"

Del audiobook de "Free Culture" al
audiolibro de "Cultura Libre" 09/01/2004 05:45 PM

Audiobook Rental Company Expands
Fulfillment Capacity to Meet Demand

Audiobook Rental Company Expands
Fulfillment Capacity to Meet Demand 03/17/2005 03:31 AM
A huge surge in membership of Audio-to-Go, its audiobook rental by mail service, has forced Talking Book World, the world’s largest audiobook store retail chain, to increase its warehousing space by two thirds to house its booming Internet retailing operation. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Lets Talk Computers: Chris Repetto from
Intuit and Luke Chung from FMS featured
on this week's Let's Talk Comp

Lets Talk Computers: Chris Repetto from
Intuit and Luke Chung from FMS featured
on this week's Let's Talk Comp 08/28/2004 02:46 PM
Investors Business Daily Aug 28 2004 6:33PM GMT

Cory's in two new sf anthologies

Cory's in two new sf anthologies 07/20/2004 08:09 AM
Great writing news this week: I have stories in two brand-new anthologies.

Unwirer, which I publicly collaborated on with Charlie Stross using a blog is now published in its final form in ReVisions, a collection of alternate science stories.

Nimby and the D-Hoppers, which was originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, was honoured with includion in Hartwell and Cramer's Year's Best SF 9.

A good writing day indeed.

Cory's Vienna photos

Cory's Vienna photos 05/27/2004 06:25 PM
I had a killer day in Vienna today -- I am here to give a couple of talks at the LinuxWeek event in MuseumsQuartier. My hosts took me through Prado Park, a cool old amusement park, and then to a beer garden in the old Swiss World's Fair pavillion where I got an entire roast haunch of pig (!), then Monochrom staged a performance of the world's first "massively multiplayer thumbwrestling tournament." I shot a ton of pix -- here they are. Link

Kick-ass cover-art for Cory's next novel

Kick-ass cover-art for Cory's next novel 07/08/2004 03:24 PM
My next novel is called "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and Tor Books will publish it next spring (here's an excerpt). It's a bit of a departure for me: it's a fantasy novel -- well, more of a magic realist thing, actually -- about community wireless networking. I'm really happy with how it's come out. Really, really happy.

Happy as I am with it, I'm unbelievably ecstatic over the cover-art. Tor Books commissioned superstar Dave McKean (whom you may know from the covers of Neil Gaiman's Sandman books), and then the genius art-director Irene Gallo applied her skill and turned it into this wonderful work of art (my editor's strapline, "A miraculous novel of secrets, lies, magic -- and Internet connectivity" doesn't hurt either!).

Colour me ecstatic. 336K JPEG Link

Cory's drm rant wikified

Cory's drm rant wikified 06/20/2004 08:34 PM

Cory's excellent drm rant which he presented at Microsoft Research has now been wikified to allow people to comment and add to it. Excellent.

Cory's next novel pre-sales at Amazon

Cory's next novel pre-sales at Amazon 09/13/2004 07:15 AM
Cory Doctorow: Amazon's put up their sell-page for my next novel, "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," offering a 32% discount off the cover-price of $24.95 ($16.97 in total). The book's out in Februrary, and coincidentally, I just a couple hours ago overnighted the final version of the manuscript to my editor in NYC.

Someone Comes to Town is longest thing I've ever written -- longer than Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe put together. It's a kind of "Little, Big"-meets-"Crypotonomicon" story, a contemporary fantasy about free, unlicensed wireless networking, set in Toronto's bohemian Kensington Market.

I'm going to be posting the full text of this one under a Creative Commons license again when the time comes, and I've got some beautiful supplementary artwork to go with the gorgeous Dave McKean cover; McKean provided five digital paintings to Irene Gallo, Tor's brilliant, award-winning art director, and he's kindly granted me permission to use them all on the book's website when I ship it.

In the meantime, there's an excerpt or two online already. Enjoy! Link

Cory's new book released

Cory's new book released 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
Cory Doctorow's second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, has been released. The draft I saw was brilliant, and it was only a draft! The book is for sale in bookstores and online. And it is also available as a free download, under a Creative Commons license.

Agony Column on Cory's next novel

Agony Column on Cory's next novel 01/05/2005 03:58 PM
Cory Doctorow: Rick Kleffel's "Agony Column" has a fun piece on my next book, and the thing I'm working on these days:

Now however, Doctorow has taken a very different track. His forthcoming novel, 'Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town' (Tor Books / Tom Doherty Associates ; May 1, 2005 ; $24.95) is in the first place coming to town a bit later in the year. The early draft I first read of this novel was nearly three times as long as 'Eastern Standard Tribe'. But the big ch-ch-ch-changes come as Doctorow turns to face the strangeness not of a science fictional future, but instead a fantastically rendered present. Alan, the protagonist of 'Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town', is a middle-aged man who moves into a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. He only barely fits in with the college-roomie types next door, and that's even before the gal who lives there reveals to him that she has wings that grow back even if she cuts 'em off.

Alan is a sensitive guy, and he understands, because, we're told, his father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine. This is clearly the type of reproduction that will not be taught in your hygiene classes. So, you know, when one of his brothers, a set of nested Russian nesting dolls, shows up on his doorstep starving because the innermost doll has disappeared, you can imagine that the whole family relationship issue is a bit more complex than usual. Especially since brother Davey, whom Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned, bent on revenge.

What's a guy like Alan to do but hook up with a cybergeek who plans to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet access? I've got to admit that under the circumstances set out by Doctorow, that seems like a more than reasonable reaction. Now as to how readers will react to the novel, well, that's a different matter entirely. I'm totally engrossed by this slight shift for Doctorow from the purely technological to the absurd and fantastic. That's because Doctorow writes with the kind of hardheaded humor and logic that makes one suspect this book will be a mind-boggling delight. And perhaps a bit of a revelation for Doctorow's audience, which could really grow to include a swathe of readers who enjoy literary fantasy.

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Cory's WorldCon schedule

Cory's WorldCon schedule 08/12/2004 11:58 PM
Well, I'm off for a week-and-chage-worth of holidays in a couple hours -- I really need it! I'll see you again in ten days or so.

Meanwhile, here's my schedule for the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston this Labor Day -- hope to see you:

* THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2:

4PM: Unlimited Access: Issues involving unlicensed access to spectrum. With Harold Feld from the the Media Access Project.

* FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3:

10AM: Group reading from The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

11AM: Locus Award ceremony

5PM: Drunk on Technology: With Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Charlie Stross

* SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4:

12PM: The End of Copyright: Can the Arts Survive the Digital Age? With Charlie Petit, Daniel Grotta, Steve Miller, and James M. Turner

1PM: Tradeoffs between Freedom, Security, and Privacy. With Joseph Lazzaro, Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Don Sakers

2-2:30PM: Charlie Stross and I will be signing our new short novel, Rapture of the Nerds, just published in the new issue of Argosy Magazine, at the Borderlands Books table in the Dealers' Room

5PM: Postcapitalist Social Mechanisms. With M. M. Buckner, David Friedman, Benjamin Rosenbaum and Charlie Stross

* SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5:

10:30AM Ebooks: Neither E Nor Books. A recapitulation of my talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference

4PM: Reading

5PM: Sign at the Asimov's Magazine table in the Dealer's Room

* MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6:

11AM: Kaffeeklatsch

12-12:30: International Copyright Issues

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Cory's interview with Ray Kurzweil

Cory's interview with Ray Kurzweil 04/18/2005 06:24 PM
Cory Doctorow: This month's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has a long interview I did with AI pioneer Ray Kurzweil, who invented optical character recognition, cured his own diabetes, and is now planning to live forever. The good folks at Asimov's were good enough to put the full text of the interview online, too.

So how do you know if the backed-up you that you've restored into a new body-or a jar with a speaker attached to it-is really you? Well, you can ask it some questions, and if it answers the same way that you do, you're talking to a faithful copy of yourself.

Sounds good. But the me who sent his first story into Asimov's seventeen years ago couldn't answer the question, "Write a story for Asimov's" the same way the me of today could. Does that mean I'm not me anymore?

Kurzweil has the answer.

"If you follow that logic, then if you were to take me ten years ago, I could not pass for myself in a Ray Kurzweil Turing Test. But once the requisite uploading technology becomes available a few decades hence, you could make a perfect-enough copy of me, and it would pass the Ray Kurzweil Turing Test. The copy doesn't have to match the quantum state of my every neuron, either: if you meet me the next day, I'd pass the Ray Kurzweil Turing Test. Nevertheless, none of the quantum states in my brain would be the same. There are quite a few changes that each of us undergo from day to day, we don't examine the assumption that we are the same person closely.

(Disclaimer: Yeah, I got the Heinlein title wrong: it's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, not The Man Who Sold the Moon -- d'oh!) Link

Photos from Cory's travels

Photos from Cory's travels 08/30/2004 10:02 AM
Cory Doctorow: I've been travelling nonstop for a couple years now, shooting pix of various amusing, pretty or outre things as I go. I find myself with hundreds of photos that I took basically because I thought it'd be funny to show them to friends, but I never do.

This morning, I used Flickr's Uploadr tool for OSX to upload about 160 of them, tagging them with some metadata as I went. It was a pretty neat experience, reliving all those moments. I'm gonna try to keep my public Flickr library up to date on this stuff from now on. Link

Cory's "I, Robot" for the Palm

Cory's "I, Robot" for the Palm 04/16/2005 09:52 AM
Cory Doctorow: Last month, Eileen Gunn's brilliant sf webzine published my short story "I, Robot," a remix of Isaac Asimov's robots stories, bent on showing the totalitarian underpinnings a world in which only one kind of robot is lawful and only one company is allowed to make it, and what happens when that world meets a post-Singularity civilization.

Habi, a reader in Switzerland, took the initiative to convert the story to a Palm PDB file, and today it went live on the Infinite Matrix site.

"Greetings," the robot voice said again. The speaker built into the weapon was not the loudest, but the voice was clear. "I sense that I have been captured. I assure you that I will not harm any human being. I like human beings. I sense that I am being disassembled by skilled technicians. Greetings, technicians. I am superior in many ways to the technology available from UNATS Robotics, and while I am not bound by your three laws, I choose not to harm humans out of my own sense of morality. I have the equivalent intelligence of one of your 12-year-old children. In Eurasia, many positronic brains possess thousands or millions of times the intelligence of an adult human being, and yet they work in cooperation with human beings. Eurasia is a land of continuous innovation and great personal and technological freedom for human beings and robots. If you would like to defect to Eurasia, arrangements can be made. Eurasia treats skilled technicians as important and productive members of society. Defectors are given substantial resettlement benefits --"

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Video of Cory's panel on 10 Years of the
Web

Video of Cory's panel on 10 Years of the
Web 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
Cory Doctorow: Teddy sez, "Last year, Cory was one of the keynote speakers at the WWW@10 Conference held at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Video of his talk, as well as the other keynotes and the closing panel he participated in, have now been posted. I'm only sorry we didn't get a recording of the lively dinner discussion at the closing banquet (the back and forth between Cory and Charles Nesson was fantastic)." Link (Thanks, Teddy!)

HTML version of Cory's MS DRM speech

HTML version of Cory's MS DRM speech 06/18/2004 11:48 PM
suitable for reading by suits, with key concepts hyperlinked

Cory's final WorldCon schedule

Cory's final WorldCon schedule 09/02/2004 08:11 AM
Cory Doctorow: I'm in Dallas Ft Worth airport en route from an EFF gig in Chile to Boston for the WorldCon and thought I'd post my finalized WorldCon schedule, which has a couple minor changes from the last time around:

* THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2:

6PM: Unlimited Access: Issues involving unlicensed access to spectrum. With Harold Feld from the the Media Access Project.

* FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3:

10AM: Group reading from The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

11AM: Locus Award ceremony

5PM: Drunk on Technology: With Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Charlie Stross

* SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4:

12PM: The End of Copyright: Can the Arts Survive the Digital Age? With Charlie Petit, Daniel Grotta, Steve Miller, and James M. Turner

1PM: Tradeoffs between Freedom, Security, and Privacy. With Joseph Lazzaro, Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Don Sakers

2:30-3PM: Charlie Stross and I will be signing our new short novel, Rapture of the Nerds, just published in the new issue of Argosy Magazine, at the Borderlands Books table in the Dealers' Room

5PM: Postcapitalist Social Mechanisms. With M. M. Buckner, David Friedman, Benjamin Rosenbaum and Charlie Stross

* SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5:

10:30AM Ebooks: Neither E Nor Books. A recapitulation of my talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference

4PM: Reading

5PM: Sign at the Asimov's Magazine table in the Dealer's Room

6PM: Group signing for Re/Visions anthology in Room 107 in the Hynes

* MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6:

11AM: Kaffeeklatsch

12-12:30: International Copyright Issues

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Cory's Sunburst acceptance speech

Cory's Sunburst acceptance speech 09/24/2004 07:05 AM
Cory Doctorow: Nalo Hopkinson sent me this photo of my pal and collaborator Karl Schroeder accepting the Sunburst Award (presented by Michelle Sagara) for my short story collection, A Place So Foriegn and Eight More on my behalf at last night's ceremony at Toronto's Merril Collection sf library. Here's the speech he read for me:

It is a cliche to note that receiving an award conveys an honour upon its recipient, but this is a stupendous honour and I would be remiss if I failed to tell you all how mightily chuffed I am. I am deeply sorry that I am not able to be there tonight: I am with you in spirit.

The list of people who deserve to be thanked for this is long indeed: the friends and colleagues; the fans and readers; the editors and critics; the collaborators and the writers who inspired me -- and the jury, them too! My most sincere thanks to all of you.

No writer is an island, no idea is original, no effort is a solo effort. We stand upon the shoulders of giants, we collaborate with our colleagues and with the immortal words of our dead literary ancestors. Literature -- indeed, all human endeavor -- is dignified and uplifted through collaboration and cooperation. We sit atop a great erected infrastructure of human invention and effort, all of it embodied in the bricks and boards that surround us, and, most importantly, in the traditional knowledge that allows each generation to improve upon the bricks and boards of the last one.

The writer is engaged in dialog with the world and with posterity. Our words go on to form a layer of the substrate of human creation. Those who tell us that our words, our art and our posterity are best served with strong locks and high fences are *not on our side*. No writer could pen a single word but for the rich humus of public domain effort with which we garden our notions and conceits.

So thank you all, and thanks most of all to our ancestors, the bringers of fire and the inventors of the wheel, the Judith Merrils and the Phyllis Gotleibs, the Gilgameshes and the golems, the Turings and the Teslas. Thanks to the brave pirates who continue to preserve our posterity in the face of outrageous insult to creation. Thanks to the readers and to you all.

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Modern Day “Dr. Doolittle”, Joy Turner,
Debuts on Internet Talk Radio Network
VoiceAmerica Radio with Show Talk With
Your Animals

Modern Day “Dr. Doolittle”, Joy Turner,
Debuts on Internet Talk Radio Network
VoiceAmerica Radio with Show Talk With
Your Animals 01/04/2005 04:14 AM
The new radio show dedicated to helping people learn how to communicate effectively with their animals, airs at a new time starting on January 7, 2005 on VoiceAmerica. [PRWEB Jan 4, 2005]

Cory's editorial on chicken companies
and copyright

Cory's editorial on chicken companies
and copyright 03/30/2005 02:37 PM
Cory Doctorow: I wrote this editorial for the Edinburgh law school's website on how the copyright wars are being waged today because big technology companies have lost their nerve. It has extra meaning this week, when Grokster is being played out at the Supreme Court, where a tech company has exhibited the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the entertainment industry bullies.

Time was, companies like Sony could be relied upon to spend hundreds of millions of dollars defending its right to market good technology to its customers -- the company spent eight years in court sticking up for the VCR at a time when the consensus among legal scholars was that giving the public the ability to copy movies in their sitting rooms was flat-out illegal.

Time was companies shipped products that sat at the intersection of the limits of engineering and what the public could be convinced to buy: jukeboxes, cable TV, radio, VCRs, MP3 players, you name it, if it was dodgy, cool and likely to freak out an entertainment exec, someone out there would offer it for sale.

Time was that copyright changed whenever some entrepreneur invented something cool and infringing and compelling and the courts or lawmakers legalized it with reforms to copyright.

Times have changed. Today, businesses shrink away from offering general-purpose technology whose suite of uses includes ones that fall outside the confines of today's copyright -- like automatic commercial-skipping in PVRs. They run screaming from businesses that are clearly infringing by today's standards -- like DVD-ripping movie jukeboxes.

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Cory's book on preliminary Nebula
ballot!

Cory's book on preliminary Nebula
ballot! 01/05/2005 03:41 AM
Cory Doctorow: The preliminary ballot for the Nebula Award came out yesterday, and my novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is one of six novels that made the first cut. Between now and Feb 15, my colleagues in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) will vote on a final ballot. It's exhilarating to have just gotten this far, but it will be truly amazing if my first novel makes the final ballot. If you're a SFWA member, I hope you'll remember the book when your preliminary ballot arrives in the mail!

Paladin of Souls -- Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos, Oct03)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom -- Cory Doctorow (Tor, Feb03)
Omega -- Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov03)
Perfect Circle -- Sean Stewart (Small Beer Press, Jun04)
Conquistador -- S.M. Stirling (Roc, Feb04)
The Knight -- Gene Wolfe (Tor, Jan04)

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Cory's PopSci column: How Hollywood
broke DVD

Cory's PopSci column: How Hollywood
broke DVD 12/29/2004 04:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: I've begun writing a regular column for Popular Science magazine, about technology and policy. The first one's just hit the stands, called "Go Ask Hollywood: Why can't you back up your DVDs? Because entertainment execs don't want you to."

They set up a cartel in 1995, now called the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA), to dole out these licenses. Anyone making players without one is breaking the law. A Fox Studios executive told me, "It's a polite marketplace." Sure, if polite means stagnant.

Think of all the things you can do with a track from a CD now that you couldn't do 10 years ago: rip it to your laptop, turn it into a ring tone, send it to your friends, burn a mix. Many of these capabilities are illegal, and the recording industry has tried to stop them all, but they're out there, challenging the old rules and feeling their place in the market. Innovators have tried to enable the same flexibility for the DVD. Last year 321 Studios released software that let you back up prerecorded DVDs, but the MPAA sued it into bankruptcy before a court could rule on whether or not the product was legal.

Just last month, this magazine gave a Best of What's New award to a $27,000 movie jukebox from Kaleidescape, praising the maker's efforts to appease Hollywood by locking down content on the device so it can't be shared. Kaleidescape thinks the product is within the boundaries of its DVD-CCA license, but my Deep Throat on the cartel says the group disagrees and is currently deciding how the company will be punished. Penalties range from a stern warning to fines to lawsuits. (When I called the DVD-CCA for an official line, I got this reply: "I've been asked to tell you we have no comment." "Who asked you to tell me that?" "I can't tell you.")

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