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Cory Doctorow, looking noir and full of energy in London, waiting to speak at Suw Charman’s February 7 Open Rights Group (ORG) meeting.
The corporate push to get “digital rights management” built into future hardware has moved to Europe. IMO, they’d be better off targeting the largescale commercial pirates in other ways! Punishing teens who make mashups to show their friends is a fruitless, mean-spirited use of their shareholders’ dollars, pounds, and Euros. |
My favorite Cory-isms on DRM:
- “There’s nobody out there who wants his next TV to be able to do fewer things than the one he has now.”
- “In the US, we killed the Broadcast Flag by convincing politicians it would be unpopular to start breaking people’s televisions.”
- “It’s a bad idea to build your business model on the idea that you can make bits of information hard to copy.”
In addition to Suw and Cory, I met or re-met there…
- Simon Willison (yes, that Simon Willison)
- Natalie Downe (my turn to buy the drinks, next time we meet)
- Ben Metcalfe (thanks for the tube ticket, Ben!)
- Kevin Anderson
- Tom Morris
- Tom Steinberg
- James Cox (Imajes)
- Glyn Wintle
- Michael Holloway
I did not, however, meet “Mike Arrington”, whose name got on the wikilist even though Mr. TechCrunch was in Arizona at Demo…
A good time was had by all–if in London, make your way to the next one!