{"id":4028,"date":"2015-10-02T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2015-10-03T09:13:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T13:13:33","slug":"cory-doctorow-roundtable-on-the-corporate-lockdown-of-computers-tue-1013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/cory-doctorow-roundtable-on-the-corporate-lockdown-of-computers-tue-1013\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow Roundtable on the Corporate Lockdown of Computers, Tue., 10\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Cory-Doctorow-e1441762635827.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Cory-Doctorow-e1441762635827-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Cory-Doctorow-e1441762635827\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3992\" \/><\/a><strong>Update:<\/strong> Unfortunately, Professor\u00a0<span>Nina Huntemann is unable to attend this roundtable. Professor\u00a0<span>Benjamin K. Ngugi will moderate instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, October 13th, Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, Co-Editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>\u00a0and someone who has great ideas on\u00a0the intersection of culture, technology and privacy, will participate in the round table discussion: &#8220;The Remote-Controlled Society&#8221;. \u00a0It will be at the C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston. \u00a0It starts at 6:30pm and ends as 8:00 pm. Cory Doctorow will be signing copies of his latest books after the round table. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordhallforum.org\/programs\/remote-control\">Please register today<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Remote-Controlled-Society-10-13-15.pdf\">download this flyer<\/a> and share it with others.<\/p>\n<p>Joining him are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rebecca Curtin, Assistant Professor of Law with a focus on copyrights, Suffolk Law School<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin K. Ngugi,\u00a0Associate Professor,\u00a0Information Systems &amp; Operations Management Department,\u00a0Suffolk University<\/li>\n<li>Leonid Reyzin, Professor of Computer Science with a focus on cryptography, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The description is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>With computers in nearly all of our machines (cars, refrigerators, etc.), people increasingly have less control over these devices. Corporations claim that Digital Rights Management is necessary to fight copyright infringement and viruses, but its real function appears to be destroying whatever they consider \u201cunauthorized\u201d uses of their hardware and software. Such restrictions built into computers to supposedly protect royalty demands are making computers less useful and businesses less innovative. Do you risk felony conviction to report a bug in critical technology? Will the bank lock you out of your house if you fall behind on the mortgage? Have we created a Digital Rights Management monster?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is co-presented by\u00a0the Ford Hall Forum, Suffolk University\u2019s College of Arts &amp; Sciences\u00a0and Boston\u2019s Literary District.<\/p>\n<p>We are proud to have helped make this event possible and hope you will be able to join us there! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordhallforum.org\/programs\/remote-control\">Register today!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/members\/doctorow\/\">Photo courtesy of Tor Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Unfortunately, Professor\u00a0Nina Huntemann is unable to attend this roundtable. Professor\u00a0Benjamin K. Ngugi will moderate instead.\u00a0 On Tuesday, October 13th, Cory Doctorow, science&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,24,32,10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copyright","category-economy","category-slider","category-privacy","category-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CoryDoctorow.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-12Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4036,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/4036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}