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On Tuesday night, I gave a talk about DVB-CPCM, Europe’s version of the Broadcast Flag, a plan to make sure that digital TVs don’t do anything to disrupt the entertainment industry’s business-model. The talk was part of the Open Rights Group’s second meeting and it also included a great talk by Phil Booth of the No2ID campaign.

Improbulus, a digital rights activist, recorded both speeches and uploaded them to the Internet Archive. The recording of my talk cuts just a few words off the beginning and end, but nothing major. Hope you enjoy it!

MP3 of my talk

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The Antwerpenbloggers have posted an
18MB, 40-minute MP3 of the talk I gave on Europe’s coming Broadcast Flag, last night at Antwerp’s MuHKA_media door/Constant vzw event. (A small correction: I misspoke when I said “I’m from the east coast of Canada” — I meant “I’m from the east part of Canada”)

Update: Stich-and-Split’s organizers have posted their own audio, with a Creative Commons license.

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Escape Pod, the science fiction audiobook podcast, has just posted a 46-minute reading of my story Craphound, the first story of mine ever to be professionally published, back in 1998.

The excellent reading is performed by The Sound of Young America‘s Jesse Thorn. Jesse is also the son of Lee Thorn, the co-founder of the amazing Jhai Project, which builds and installs ruggedized, bicycle-powered WiFi links in rural villages in the developing world.

Escape Pod Episode 37 MP3

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Here’s the first installment of my reading of my story Human Readable, originally published in 2005’s Future Washington anthology. It’s the tale of a world that’s been upended by hyper-efficient planning algorithms based on ant-colony optimizations, so that Los Angeles has the best traffic in the world. However, when these networks crash, they really crash — cars, surfboards, and many other common conveyances end up catastrophically failing, with concomitant loss of life.

Part One MP3