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Inside: Copyleft lawsuit against Vizio will allow anyone to defend the commons; The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/vizio-vs-the-world/
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The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757517/attacksurface
Signed copies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:
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Copyleft lawsuit against Vizio will allow anyone to defend the commons: Software Freedom Conservancy realizes the dream of "Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107134651242103309
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The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars: The victory condition isn't highest profits, it's market dominance.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107134983027237882
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#15yrsago Boy Scouts shill for MPAA with copyright merit badge https://web.archive.org/web/20061110065012/https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/10/20/entertainment/e110452D84.DTL
#10yrsago Canadian Tories admit that Canadians don’t want DRM rules, push for them anyway https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/canada-returns-copyright-reform-86674/
#5yrsago Turing’s law: UK to retroactively pardon thousands of men prosecuted for having sex with men https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37711518
#5yrsago By stealing from innocents, Chicago PD amassed tens of millions in a secret black budget for surveillance gear https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/inside-the-chicago-police-departments-secret-budget/
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#5yrsago Turkish court fines bystander/tourist who sued police for shooting out his eye https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kyrgyz-tourist-wounded-in-gezi-protests-ordered-to-pay-debt-to-turkish-state--104964
#5yrsago Montana judge unrepentant after sentencing man to 60 days for repeatedly raping his own 12 year old daughter https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/19/us/montana-judge-incest-case-trnd/index.html
#1yrago Cadillac perfects the murdermobile https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/20/the-cadillac-of-murdermobiles/#caddy
#1yrago Feds gouge states, subsidize corporations https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/20/the-cadillac-of-murdermobiles/#austerity
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Yesterday's threads: The true, Terry Pratchett-esque origins of the trillion-dollar coin; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107129019592770503
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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at @darkdel:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
One-month, $30 audiobook bundle with all three Little Brother books:
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* From Wayback to Way Forward: The Internet Archive turns 25, Oct 21
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-wayback-to-way-forward-the-internet-archive-turns-25-virtual-tickets-163615196457
* Lessons from the First Internet Ages (Knight Foundation), Nov 2-3
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/10/announcing-a-major-virtual-event-lessons-from-the-first-internet-ages-on-nov-2-3-2021.htm
* Keynote for SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
https://seagl.org/news/2021/06/08/format-2021
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Recent appearances:
* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, Tech Policy Press
https://techpolicy.press/podcast/
* Internet Archive:
https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1448785942852997120
* Trom:
https://videos.trom.tf/w/2vBxVQTa4hfC92j7oYsPiE
* This Week in Google
https://open.spotify.com/show/0lTcKFcbcRhAqbT9XlCCLG?si=4f7cab60cae64fb9&nd=1
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is "Against the great forces of history," What Ada Palmer’s University of Chicago Papal election LARP can teach us about our own future
https://medium.com/@doctorow/against-the-great-forces-of-history-4946651f2f80
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Today's top sources: Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/), Economics From the Top Down (https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/).
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