How Hacktivists Will Break Corporate Control of Information Within a Decade
Sci-fi author and information rights activist Cory Doctorow appearedout of the dusty heat of the 2015 Burning Man in a gray jumpsuit and a
pair of Adbusters Black Spot sneakers. In his hand he held a small black
moleskin, which he glanced at intermittently while delivering an
electrifying, albeit head-spinning talk on the future of the Internet of Things.
Doctorow, who recently re-joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), contextualized the Internet of Things as
an information rights struggle that requires an end to patent laws that
forbid jailbreaking digital locks. Concordantly, he and the EFF have an
ambitious plan: To dismantle the draconian Digital Rights Management
(DRM) laws currently protected by the DMCA Section 1201. Doctorow and
the EFF seek to counter this oppressive legislation with the Apollo 1201
initiative, by which they will strategically pick cases that can
clearly demonstrate Congress violated the Constitution when it passed
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998.
