Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 weeks ago

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#20yrsago Why market-forces can’t correct DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20041109090959/http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19246

#15yrsago Awful 1962 marriage textbook speaks out against feminism, communism and interracial dating https://www.amalah.com/photos/when_you_marry/index.html

#10yrsago UK Tories propose life sentences for using a computer to “damage the economy” https://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/oct/23/computer-users-damage-national-security-face-jail

#5yrsago BBC launches a Tor hidden service mirror to help people evade their countries’ censoring firewalls https://web.archive.org/web/20191025120544/https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3083006/bbc-news-tor-dark-web-site

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 weeks ago

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#5yrsago The Youtubers’ union just wants Google to give them the rulebook https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-union/

#5yrsago An important, elegant thought experiment on content moderation regulation https://twitter.com/Klonick/status/1186718183513907202

#1yrago Microincentives and Enshittification https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/24/cursed-bigness/#incentives-matter

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 weeks ago

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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 weeks ago

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 weeks ago

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Upcoming appearances:

* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/

* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme

* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 weeks ago

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Recent appearances:

* Maximum Iceland Scenario ( @TWiT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz0

* Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow ( @digitaliafm)
https://digitalia.fm/744/

* Was There Ever An Old, Good Internet? (David Graeber Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Jlxx5TboE

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 weeks ago

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 weeks ago

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I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the @sf_tus science fiction convention:

https://tusconscificon.com/

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Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:

https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/

And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:

https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/

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