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diff --git a/events/2020/julfest/notes-docrow.mdwn b/events/2020/julfest/notes-docrow.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa20487 --- /dev/null +++ b/events/2020/julfest/notes-docrow.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +--- +title: Notes from Doctorow, September 2020 +author: Gustav Eek +date: 12 dec 2020 +--- + +As preparation for Christmas party. Listen to Cory Doctorow, 'We used +to have cake, now all that's left is icing', Stanford Online, +September 2020. + + + * EFF, [Cory Doctorow at the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction + Seminar](https://www.eff.org/event/cory-doctorow-stanford-human-computer-interaction-seminar), + September 2020. A free public talk by EFF Special Advisor Cory + Doctorow for Stanford's Human-Computer Interaction Seminar. Watch + it here. + + * [The talk](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMyupDF2O00r19JsmolyXdD) + +01:00 + +Free software licences, Stallman, etc. 1983. + +03:00 + +Open source as alternative, 1988, + +Free software born before software patents and api patents. + +05:00 + +Cake and icing world in the 80:es. + +Applying GPL on the source code was the icing on top of the generally +spread software freedom which was the cake. + +(*listen again to get it right*) + +07:00 + +Now world is a different place. Any attempt to iteract with existing +software is effective + +08:00 + +Interoperability thanks to standardisation. Benefits. In physical +societies. + +12:00 + +Ease of entering, hard to leave → By Facebook, interoperability is +utilised to make entrance easy. + +14:00 + +Leaving Facebook is possible, but not easy. + +"Leaving Facebook in the 21'st century is like leaving Sovjet for US in +the 40'es. You can go, sure, but your friends and your loved ones are +all held hostage behind Zuclebergs iron curtains." + +16:00 + +Couple interoperability with democracy. + +18:00 + +"Intellectual property" is a recent concept for grouping (a) +copyright, (b) patents, and (c) trademarks. Historically referred to +separately or by "author's monopoly". + +Critique on patents. Trademarks are not property at all. Now "IP" +means any way for companies to control others, employees, customers, +etc. "A way to control the customers to force customers to arrange +their affairs to benefit the manufacturer." A way to transfer risk and +uncertenity from the manufacturer side of the balance sheet to the +customer side. + +DRM + +"Conjure up a doctuorum we can call felony controlled business models". + +Goldman Sacks copyright protect their logo font with the purpose of +controlling criticism. + +26:00 + +How "author's monopoly" became "intellectual property". + +b29:00 + +Authors' monopolies accumulates to market power monopolies. +Monopolies in culture sector, entertainment monopolies, from movie +theatres to book sellers. + +33:20 + +Software is eating the world, or has already eaten the world. + +There is no software freedom there is only freedom. Software rights +had become human rights. + +The combination of software and IP in basically every device. + +35:10 + +Level of control beyond the wildest dreams of the history's most +sociopathic monopolists + +Compare coal bosses controlling workers. Noninteroperable +mony. Software enforcing system + +36:20 + +Ending + +"Once we had cake, today we have icing, and the icing is disappearing +fast. There are no digital rights, only human rights, and today there +is no software freedom, there is only freedom." + +36:45 |