{"id":4038,"date":"2015-10-07T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2015-10-05T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T12:22:25","slug":"tue-1013-cory-doctorow-roundtable-on-the-corporate-lockdown-of-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/tue-1013-cory-doctorow-roundtable-on-the-corporate-lockdown-of-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tue., 10\/13, Cory Doctorow Roundtable on the Corporate Lockdown of Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<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>On Tuesday, October 13th, Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, Co-Editor of\u00a0<a class=\"\" 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: \u201cThe Remote-Controlled Society\u201d. This event is free and open to the public. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordhallforum.org\/programs\/remote-control\">Registration is open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The roundtable focuses on the increasing corporate lockdown of computers and what will happen as computers move into more of our things:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<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>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>It will be at the C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston. \u00a0It starts at 6:30pm and ends as 8:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Cory Doctorow will be signing copies of his latest books after the round table.<\/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><span>It is co-presented by\u00a0the Ford Hall Forum, Suffolk University\u2019s College of Arts &amp; Sciences\u00a0and Boston\u2019s Literary District.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordhallforum.org\/programs\/remote-control\">Please register today<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span>and<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Remote-Controlled-Society-10-13-15.pdf\">download this flyer<\/a><span>\u00a0and<\/span><span>\u00a0share it with others.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, October 13th, Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, Co-Editor of\u00a0Boing Boing\u00a0and someone who has great ideas on\u00a0the intersection of culture, technology and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[24,18,22,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-freedom-of-speech","category-patents","category-privacy","category-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CoryDoctorow.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-138","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","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=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4051"}],"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=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}