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  • iphone markets in everything Paper-towel dispenser with a EULA prohibiting rival brands of paper Cory Doctorow
  • adversarial interoperability Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies Cory Doctorow
  • chromium How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control Cory Doctorow
  • neofeudalism Americans believe that they should own the mountains of data produced by their cars, but they don't Cory Doctorow
  • even if you're paying for the product you're still the product DRM and terms-of-service have ended true ownership, turning us into "tenants of our own devices" Cory Doctorow
  • lockdown Discovering whether your Iphone has been hacked is nearly impossible thanks to Apple's walled garden Cory Doctorow
  • borking the app store Supreme Court greenlights Apple customers' lawsuit over App Store price-fixing Cory Doctorow
  • think differently Big Tech lobbyists and "open for business" Tories killed Ontario's Right-to-Repair legislation Cory Doctorow
  • hope in the dark Talking Radicalized with the LA Public Library: Trump derangement syndrome, engagement algorithms, and novellas as checked luggage Cory Doctorow
  • readme Come see me at UCLA tonight and then with John Scalzi on Sunday at the LA Times Festival of Books! Cory Doctorow
  • widevine After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations Cory Doctorow
  • seriously this is fucking bullshit Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries Cory Doctorow
  • bug bounties Researchers find mountains of sensitive data on totalled Teslas in junkyards Cory Doctorow
  • swiss post A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong with e-voting, security practice, and auditing firms Cory Doctorow
  • printer company fuckery HP's ink DRM instructs your printer to ignore the ink in your cartridge when you cancel your subscription Cory Doctorow
  • audiobooks Announcing the audiobook for Unauthorized Bread: a DRM-free tale of DRM-locked appliances, refugees, and resistance Cory Doctorow
  • nopologies Bird nonpologizes: "we accidentally sent you a threatening letter" Cory Doctorow
  • cack-handed overlawyering Bird Scooter tried to censor my Boing Boing post with a legal threat that's so stupid, it's a whole new kind of wrong Cory Doctorow
  • don't forget the macro A history of the sprawling personality clashes over RSS Cory Doctorow
  • selective schumpeters Big Tech loves disruption, when they're doing the disruption Cory Doctorow
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