Les trois lois de Cory Doctorow sur le copyright


Cory’s first law: anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and won’t give you the key, they didn’t put the lock there for your benefit.

Cory’s second law: fame won’t guarantee fortune. But no one has ever gotten rich by being obscur.

Cory’s third law: information doesn’t want to be free. People do (…) want to be free to own devices that don’t let remote authorities set policies against our wills and against our interests. Free to use networks that don’t spy on us, in case we’re infringing the copyright. Free to communicate in private without having to worry that our personal lives will be made public in the name of protecting copyrights.

En français, ça pourrait donner :

La première loi de Cory : chaque fois que quelqu’un met un cadenas sur quelque chose qui vous appartient sans vous remettre la clé, ce n’est pas pour votre bien.

La seconde loi de Cory : être célèbre ne garantit pas la fortune. Mais personne n’est jamais devenu riche en étant obscur.

La troisième loi de Cory : l’information ne veut pas être libre. Les gens oui (…) Ils veulent être libres de posséder des appareils qui ne donnent pas à des autorités distantes le pouvoir de définir des règles contre notre volonté, contre nos propres intérêts. Libres d’utiliser des réseaux qui ne nous espionnent pas, au cas où vous ne respecterions pas un copyright. Libres de communiquer en privé, sans avoir à s’inquiéter de voir leur vie privée rendue publique au nom de la protection du copyright.

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Our relationship to technology

Our relationship to technology is this: We’ve jammed ourselves into the cockpits of supersonic jets that are being constantly redesigned as they hurtle around the planet, in dangerously close proximity to everyone else’s supersonic jet. It’s good to pay attention to how fast our jets go, and how comfortable the upholstery is, but the thing we really need to keep our eyes on is what happens when they crack up, when their navigation systems go awry, and when they get a bad upgrade.

Cory Doctorow: Android and iOS both fail, but Android fails better

No love or devotion. No trust.

For me, no love or devotion is due to an operating system or a gadget.
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I don’t use Android tablets and phones because I hate Apple; I most certainly don’t use them because I love Google. And I don’t prefer Android to iOS because it works better than Apple — in some aspects, it does, in some aspects it doesn’t.

I use Android because I don’t trust Google.

(…)Because it requires less trust in Google than using iOS requires that you trust Apple.
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Android allows you to run apps from any store you choose. Google still rejects plenty of apps submitted to its store, but if you don’t like Google’s choices, you can decide to make some of your own.

That’s failing well.

Cory Doctorow: Android and iOS both fail, but Android fails better

Decluttering iStuff: The Series

Decluttering iStuff: The Series, via Minimalmac.

A refreshing approach to iOS app purchase–once a week, the author will explain why he chooses to get rid of certain apps–contrasting with the plethora of websites listing each and every new app available for iOS, and why one can not live without it.

Now, one could argue that it would have been simpler (and cheaper) not to purchase those apps to begin with. But, as far as I’m concerned, I must admit that the App Store has had a deep impact on my purchases: even if I quickly became more reasonable, the first months have been devastating monetarily speaking. So I really like this idea–my only regret is that I didn’t think of doing it myself 😉