Today's threads (a thread).
Inside: Davis Haunters rise from the grave; RIAA kills youtube-dl; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/24/1201-v-dl-youtube/
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This weekend's events:
Milehicon (Fri/Sat/Sun): https://milehicon.org/
Toronto International Festival of Authors (Sat): https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-webb-coding-democracy/
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Davis Haunters rise from the grave: Oregon's Hallowe'en is saved.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105090035869364461
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RIAA kills youtube-dl: Everything not forbidden is mandatory.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105090176790708909
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#5yrsago Globe and Mail: TPP’s copyright chapter will cost Canadians hundreds of millions https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/copyright-concessions-may-be-downside-of-tpp-deal/article26939204/
#1yrago 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
#1yrago The Youtubers’ union just wants Google to give them the rulebook https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-union/
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Yesterday's threads: Student loans are dischargeable; Cracking the Ghislaine Maxwell redactions; Bring back the CCC; Foxconn out-trumped Trump; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105085413812213155
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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."
Get signed books from @darkdel: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html
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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
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