In his 2007 charitable giving guide, Science-fiction author Cory Doctorow writes:

"It's wonderful to see a campaigning group based on fighting DRM. Defective by Design has pulled off a number of audacious and clever actions that have raised public awareness of DRM. The fight starts here."

"Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad."
This was the headline used by Cory Doctorow to break the news about ACTA to an unsuspecting Internet on November 3rd, 2009...

Cory Doctorow just gets it. Here is what he said about copyright accusations. “The Internet’s a single wire that delivers freedom of speech, of assembly and of the press — it’s a conduit for civic engagement, health care, employment, education, distant family, love and life.

Cory Doctorow spoke some words of warning at the 28th Chaos Computing Club (CCC) about the legal-technological future. The themes handled included DRM, U-EFI, spyware and obviously copyright and internet policy. The speech is available as a 55 minute video and a transcript is available.

Why does all this copyright reform stuff matter, anyway? What's at stake? Everything.

Great post by Cory Doctorow on the copyfight, battles at WIPO, and the future fight over ACTA.

On Wednesday, Industry Minister Jim Prentice introduced a bill that BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow described as making it "flatly illegal to break any kind of digital lock, or to violate terms in one of those absurd end-user license agreements that make you promise to agree to let the record industry kick your teeth in and drink all your beer, just for the dubious privilege of paying for a song at iTu

I recently had the honor of spending time with Cory Fields, the Public / Business Relations Manger for XBMC.

If the fact that the ParanoidLinux distribution (now in an "alpha-alpha stage") is based on a work of science fiction isn't unsettling, consider two key peripheral issues.