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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/

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A galactic-scale Pac-Man is eating a row of 'big blue marble' Earths. The Pac-Man has a copyright circle-c in his center. The starry sky behind the scene is intermingled with a 'code rain' effect from the credits of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.

T_X @T_X@chaos.social · 4 months ago

@pluralistic to the end of reading the article I realized the dreadful, legal trouble I might have gotten myself into... I was reading it at 130% zoom level... without asking you for permission first to alter your page in that way...

John Anderson @quizzicus@mastodon.online · 4 months ago

@pluralistic On top of all the other arguments, it seems to me that if Simon Schuster objected to me scribbling in one of their books that I had purchased, they'd have to sue me, as opposed to Bic.

calvin 🛋️ @calvin@fedi.sphericalcow.space · 4 months ago

@pluralistic I've been reading Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis just this morning, so this article was great timing!

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

I'm coming to @defcon!

8/9:

12h: Emceeing @eff Poker Tournament (Horseshoe Poker Room)

17h: Bricked and Abandoned panel (track 1).

8/10, 12h: Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet, hardened against our bosses' horniness for enshittification (track 1).

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement: Actual property rights are less important than the metaphorical property rights of "IP."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112871194029496491

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Hey look at this

* Twitter is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/x-is-training-grok-ai-on-your-data-heres-how-to-stop-it/

* Ken Anderson's Haunted Mansion Artwork? Most of What You Know is WRONG https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2024/07/ken-andersons-haunted-mansion-artwork.html

* Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to ‘heroin’ https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205774/adobe-ftc-lawsuit-creative-cloud-cancellation-fees-heroin

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @jmcrookston@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

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@pluralistic

Thank you re twitter. I should just delete my account but there's useful info on there.

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#20yrsago Salon op-ed on DNC bloggers https://www.salon.com/2004/07/28/demoblog/

#20yrsago Ebook column that gets it all wrong https://memex.craphound.com/2004/07/28/ebook-column-that-gets-it-all-wrong/

#20yrsago Don Martin MAD toons onomatopoeia glossary https://web.archive.org/web/20040803000036/http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/dmd-alphabetical.html

#20yrsago @eff@mastodon.socialdefending creators of This Land is Your Land parody https://web.archive.org/web/20040804002623/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001778.php

#15yrsago Canadian copyright collecting agency subverting open debate on copyright https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/28/canadian-copyright-collecting-agency-subverting-open-debate-on-copyright/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#15yrsago US border station scraps sign that says “United States” because terrorists might attack it https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/arts/design/27border.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

#15yrsago Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2009/07/27/aps-drm-announcement-much-ado-about-nothing/

#15yrsago Free: a great book, but it’s missing the truly free https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/jul/28/cory-doctorow-free-chris-anderson

#15yrsago What real piracy looks like: biopirate loses patent over century-old latinamerican staple crop https://web.archive.org/web/20090918155634/http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/newsroom/release_31.htm

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#5yrsago Irish islamaphobe condemns Halal grocery as evidence of creeping islamification, is subsequently forcefully reminded of the global proliferation of Irish pubs https://web.archive.org/web/20190808135045/https://www.indy100.com/article/halal-shop-ireland-gemma-odoherty-twitter-response-9023161

#5yrsago Germany’s powerful IG Metall trade union is organizing Youtubers to force Google to play fair https://fairtube.info

#5yrsago “Intellectual Debt”: It’s bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it’s potentially WORSE when AI gets it right https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/28/intellectual-debt-its-bad-enough-when-ai-gets-its-predictions-wrong-but-its-potentially-worse-when-ai-gets-it-right/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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#1yrago Microincentives and Enshittification https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

#1yrago Tesla's Dieselgate https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Friday's threads: Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112854338996625179

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months 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

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 @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months 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 @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Upcoming appearances:

* @eff Charity Poker Tournament ( @defcon, Las Vegas, Horseshoe Poker Room), Aug 9 12h
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/betting-your-digital-rights-eff-benefit-poker-tournament-def-con-32

* Bricked & Abandoned: How To Keep The IoT From Becoming An Internet of Trash ( @defcon, Las Vegas, Track 1), Aug 9 17h
https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54844

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification ( @defcon, Las Vegas, Track 1), Aug 10 12h
https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54861

* Disenshittify or die! (Burning Man, Palenque Norte, 7&E), Aug 27, 13h

* Albacon (Albany/remote), Sep 13-15
https://albacon.org/2024/

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

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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Recent appearances:

* The Paradigm Shift
https://paradigm-shift-on-4zzz.pinecast.co/episode/dbf12eaf/tech-criticism-with-cory-doctorow

* How To Fix The Internet ( @eff)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/podcast-episode-fighting-enshittification

* Big Tech and the News (Tech Policy Press)
https://www.techpolicy.press/big-tech-and-the-news/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 months ago

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