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

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/30/open-and-shut-casebook/

#Pluralistic

A series of comic-book panels symbolizing 'ideas,' including Mr Peabody, 'e-mc2,' a lightbulb and more.

Image:
Jenkins and Boyle
https://web.law.duke.edu/musiccomic/

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ — A series of comic-book panels symbolizing 'ideas,' including Mr Peabody, 'e-mc2,' a lightbulb and more. Image: Jenkins and Boyle https://web.law.duke.edu/musiccomic/ CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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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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An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more: Up-to-date, erudite, and free!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112876164938564562

Image:
Jenkins and Boyle
https://web.law.duke.edu/musiccomic/

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ — Image: Jenkins and Boyle https://web.law.duke.edu/musiccomic/ CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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

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Hey look at this

* Lovely NYC https://archive.org/details/mashup_djBC_The_Beastles-Let_It_Beast/06.Lovely_NYC.mp3

* Having taken orders, Chinese factory must actually make massive AI slop gorilla sofas https://boingboing.net/2024/07/29/having-taken-orders-chinese-factories-attempt-to-make-massive-ai-slop-gorilla-sofas.html

* The Only Member of Congress Who Has Worked for Kamala Harris https://prospect.org/politics/2024-07-29-member-congress-worked-kamala-harris-katie-porter/

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

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#20yrsago Penguin Putnam’s domain-name intimidation scam https://web.archive.org/web/20040726041959/http://www.katie.com/

#20yrsago Music blogs under the BPI gun https://web.archive.org/web/20040802232645/http://www.snappishproductions.com/blog/archive/000852.html

#20yrsago Film piracy zine from 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20040810095634/http://www.sizemore.co.uk/2004/07/private-screenings-i-just-stumbled.html

#20yrsago Tethered to your hardware: don’t get leashed by your vendor! https://web.archive.org/web/20040812080926/http://features.engadget.com/entry/6314322665586411/

#15yrsago Karl Schroeder on “rewilding” — openness, government, and autonomous nature as an economic actor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7pkohj6wE

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

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#15yrsago Associated Press DRM diagram demystified (with cuss-words) https://imgur.com/more-accurate-version-of-ap-point-protect-pay-chart-img-r-programming-1469-july-26-2009-DzZdf

#15yrsago Primer on “high frequency trading” — AKA stockbots https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/07/it-sounds-like-something/

#15yrsago Movie/record industry rep says that you shouldn’t expect to be able to play your media for as long as you own it https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/29/movie-record-industry-rep-says-that-you-shouldnt-expect-to-be-able-to-play-your-media-for-as-long-as-you-own-it/

#5yrsago Literary tattoos of the New York Public Library staff https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/07/17/literary-tattoos-of-nypl-staff

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

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

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112871308909382254

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

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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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