Cory Doctorow te gast in het MuHKA
6 januari 2006
Op dinsdag 24 januari (19u30) geeft Cory Doctorrow een lezing in het MuHKA te Antwerpen. Doctorrow is een science fiction schrijver die publiceert onder de creative commons licentie, was Director of European Affairs voor de Electonic Frontier Foundation en blogt mee op het overbekende Boing Boing.
"In his lecture Doctorow will show you that American entertainment companies say they're fighting piracy, but in fact they're going at it by punishing the innocent to get at the guilty. A pan-European digital-television restrictions proposal will turn the studios from companies that can control copying of movies into companies that can control the design of all DTV devices, that get to define how big your family is allowed to be, that get to take away all the rights you get under copyright law and sell them back to you, one painful, expensive dribble at a time.It's not really a business plan: more like a urinary tract infection. Europe's coming Broadcast Flag will ban open source for DTV, break the devices in your living room, and turn you into a truly captive audience. Get your torch and pitchfork, for this genuinely sucks -- and you shouldn't take it lying down!
Meer info: www.stitch-and-split.org
Gepost door Stefan Kolgen om 12u30