Cory Doctorow
description: Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
138 results
For the Win
by Cory Doctorow · 11 May 2010 · 624pp · 180,416 words
Makers, by Cory Doctorow by Unknown Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers Cory Doctorow doctorow@craphound.com Tor Books: 978-0765312792 HarperCollins UK/Voyager: 978-0007325221 Last modified 29 Oct 2009 Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow Contents About this download A word to professors, librarians, and people
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who want to donate money to me License Dedication Part I Part II Part III Acknowledgements Makers, by Cory Doctorow
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Makers, by Cory Doctorow About this download There’s a dangerous group of anti-copyright activists out there who pose a clear and present danger to the future
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with DRM on it. If you’re converting to a format that has a DRM option, make sure it’s switched off. Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow A word to professors, librarians, and people who want to... Every time I put a book online for free, I get emails from readers
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we’ll thank you on the donate page. Check http://craphound.com/makers/donate for profs, librarians and similar people seeking donations. Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow This file is licensed under a Creative Commons US... http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ You are free: to Share — to
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or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow Dedication: For “the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things.” Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow PART I Suzanne Church almost never had to bother with the blue blazer these days. Back at
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the squatters had broadened her vocabulary magnificently. “And those are your good points,” she said, taking a sip of coffee. “Goodbye, Freddy.” Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow PART II The drive from Orlando down to Hollywood got worse every time Sammy took it. The turnpike tolls went up every year and
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to say. Perry went back to the cop cars just as the first gang of goths showed up to take a ride. Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow PART III Sammy had filled a cooler and stuck it in the back-seat of his car the night before, programmed his coffee-maker
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her a few minutes later and spooned up against her back, his face buried in her neck. She fell asleep almost instantly. Makers, by Cory Doctorow Makers, by Cory Doctorow Acknowledgements: Thanks to Andrew Leonard and Salon for publishing this when it was Themepunks. Thanks to Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Irene Gallo, Pablo Defendini, Justin
Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow · 15 Sep 2008 · 189pp · 57,632 words
Table of Contents About Doctorow: Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is in
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more) Now, on to the book! Copyright notice: This entire work (with the exception of the introduction by John Perry Barlow) is copyright 2008 by Cory Doctorow and released under the terms of a Creative Commons US Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/). Some
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you on the pages of a book, a physical object that might be said to have "contained" the thoughts of my friend and co-conspirator Cory Doctorow as they were transported in boxes and trucks all the way from his marvelous mind into yours. If that is so, I will concede that
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different from the value you retrieve from reading them. We are both mining a deeply intangible "good," which lies in interacting with The Mind of Cory Doctorow. I mention this because it demonstrates the immeasurable role of relationship as the driving force in an information economy. But neither am I creating content
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, or at least own, the Internet. That's a lot of lawyers to have stacked against your cause. But we had Cory Doctorow. Had nature not provided us with a Cory Doctorow when we needed one, it would have been necessary for us to invent a time machine and go into the future to
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. But even if it hasn't, I am certain that the global human discourse will be less encumbered than it would have been had not Cory Doctorow blessed our current little chunk of space/time with his fierce endeavors. And whatever it is that might be "contained" in the following. Microsoft Research
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
by Cory Doctorow, Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman · 18 Nov 2014 · 170pp · 51,205 words
INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE McSWEENEY’S SAN FRANCISCO Copyright © 2014 Cory Doctorow Cover design by Sunra Thompson. All rights reserved, including right of reproduction in whole or in part, in any form. McSweeney’s and colophon are
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avoid getting up on stages in the first place, and that it’s not a solution for everybody or even for most of us. Fortunately, Cory Doctorow has written this book. It’s filled with wisdom and with thought experiments and with things that will mess with your mind. Once, while we
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wide world of international passersby. This is what they would learn, and this is what they could apply to the Internet, and this is what Cory Doctorow understands after years in the world of copyfighting: People actually like supporting the artists whose work they like. It makes them feel happy. You don
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its rightful owner. A movie would thus be watermarked with its owner’s information, saying, effectively, I AM CORY DOCTOROW’S COPY OF STAR WARS. If a DVD player that isn’t registered to Cory Doctorow tries to play the movie, it’s locked out. Or, alternately, companies could look on file-sharing sites
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big technical problem: a watermark can’t be truly imperceptible unless you also want it to be useless. Imagine a photo with the words COPYRIGHT CORY DOCTOROW written in letters that couldn’t be seen without a powerful microscope. A copy of the photo without the copyright notice would appear functionally identical
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to the copyrighted version, unless you went to great lengths to inspect it. Of course, you could write COPYRIGHT CORY DOCTOROW across the photo in four-inch black letters, but you’d have a hard time selling a photo like that. Watermarkers have tried to find
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, Chris DiBona, Alice Taylor, Ang Cui, Martha Lane Fox, Wendy Seltzer, Brewster Kahle, Russ Galen, Eric Faden, Matt McLernon, and Lisa Gold. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cory Doctorow is a science-fiction novelist, blogger, and technology activist. He is the coeditor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and a contributor to the Guardian
Chokepoint Capitalism
by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow · 26 Sep 2022 · 396pp · 113,613 words
FOR CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM “Are you a writer, a musician, an artist? Is Big Tech eating your brain and sucking your financial blood? Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow’s Chokepoint Capitalism tells us how the vampires crashed the party and provides protective garlic. Your brain must remain your own concern, however.” —MARGARET ATWOOD
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Up and founder of The Lever “Rather than simply lamenting the problem, or falling back on clich’s about starving artists, what Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow do in Chokepoint Capitalism is make clear the overall pattern that drives exploitation of artists… . Every creator will find inspiration here.” —ANIL DASH, CEO of
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infuriating yet inspiring call to collective action.” —DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus and Survival of the Richest “Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow lay out their case in plain and powerful prose, offering a grand tour of the blighted cultural landscape and how our arts and artists have
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. David Kravets, “Like Amazon’s DRM-Free Music Downloads? Thank Apple,” Wired, September 25, 2007, https://www.wired.com/2007/09/drm-part-one. 21. Cory Doctorow, “Amazon’s Anti-DRM Tee,” Boing Boing, Feb. 1, 2008, https://boingboing.net/2008/02/01/amazons-antidrm-tee.html. 22. Andrew Savikas, “Over 160
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Audible for US$300 Million,” Good Gear Guide, Feb. 1, 2018, https://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/205192/amazon_buys_audible_us_300_million. 42. Cory Doctorow, “Random House Audio Abandons Audiobook DRM,” Boing Boing, Feb. 21, 2008, https://boingboing.net/2008/02/21/random-house-audio-a.html. 43
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. Cory Doctorow, “Google Launches a DRM-Free Audiobook Store: Finally, a Writer- and Listener-Friendly Audible Alternative!,” Boing Boing, July 20, 2018, https://boingboing.net/2018/07/
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,” Ars Technica, September 9, 2019, https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/developer-of-checkm8-explains-why-idevice-jailbreak-exploit-is-a-game-changer. 20. Cory Doctorow, “Why I Won’t Buy an iPad (and Think You Shouldn’t, Either),” Boing Boing, Apr. 2, 2010, https://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why
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the original ballot initiative and the House bill, an additional bill was passed in the following year: H. 3757, 188th Gen. Ct. (Mass. 2013). 6. Cory Doctorow and Christoph Schmon, “The EU’s Digital Markets Act: There Is a Lot to Like, but Room for Improvement,” Dec. 15, 2020, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552c0535e4b0afcbed88dc53/t/55d0da1ae4b06bd4bea8c86c/1439750682446/rethink_music_fairness_transparency_final.pdf. 27. Becky Brook, “A Blanket License for Online Music featuring Cory Doctorow,” Music Ally, ep. 7, podcast audio, June 11, 2020, https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xZDAxZjM1Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw/episode/YjY0MmYwNWEtNzhkZS00MjA0LTg3ZjYtMjI5ZGFlODBjZDVl?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiQrvSx7p3wAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQiAE. 28. Ben Sisario, “Going
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Boston, Massachusetts www.beacon.org Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. © 2022 by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 25 24 23 22 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Text design and
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Names: Giblin, Rebecca, author. | Doctorow, Cory, author. Title: Chokepoint capitalism : how to beat big tech, tame big content, and get artists paid / Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow. Description: Boston : Beacon Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “People are feeling squeezed because of chokepoint capitalism: exploitative businesses creating barriers to competition
Radicalized
by Cory Doctorow · 19 Mar 2019 · 444pp · 84,486 words
contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly extrapolated revolutionary struggle. A wonderful novel: everything we’ve come to expect from Cory Doctorow and more.’ William Gibson Cory Doctorow has authored the Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunct faculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/LGTBQIA*/squatter
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, funny, exciting, sensual and visionary.’ SFX ‘Compelling, cerebral “hard” science fiction that ranks with some of the best of the genre.’ Ars Technica Also by Cory Doctorow The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Science Fiction(with Karl Schroeder) Essential Blogging (with Rael Dornfest, J. Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott, and
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Politics in the 21st Century The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow Pirate Cinema Walkaway Radicalized Cory Doctorow www.headofzeus.com First published in the UK in 2019 by Head of Zeus Ltd Copyright © Cory Doctorow, 2019 The moral right of Cory Doctorow to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with
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Floor East 5–8 Hardwick Street London EC1R 4RG WWW.HEADOFZEUS.COM Contents Epigraph Also by Cory Doctorow Welcome Page Copyright Dedication Unauthorized Bread Model Minority Radicalized The Masque of the Red Death Acknowledgments About the Cory Doctorow An Invitation from the Publisher For my parents: Roz and Gord Doctorow, who taught me why
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, and the millions in the streets. This isn’t the kind of fight you win, it’s the kind of fight you fight. About the Cory Doctorow CORY DOCTOROW is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger–the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books: most recently In Real
Pirate Cinema
by Cory Doctorow · 2 Oct 2012 · 478pp · 146,480 words
Pirate Cinema Cory Doctorow Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow A commercial interlude Read this first! The copyright thing About derivative works Donations and a word to teachers and librarians Commercial interlude the second Dedication
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Metadata SiSU Metadata, document information Rights: Copyright CorDoc-Co, Ltd (UK), 2012.; License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 8 Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow A commercial interlude Today, October 2, 2012 is the hardest it will ever be to copy things. It will never get harder. It only gets
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a noble trade. Allow me to demonstrate. You have now read several hundred pages' worth of a novel called Pirate Cinema, by some hack called Cory Doctorow. On this basis, I'm going to recommend that you buy a copy, since you're clearly enjoying it: USA: Amazon Kindle (DRM-free) Barnes
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: my wife, Alice and my daughter, Poesy, who put up with all manner of bad behaviour on the way to this book's completion. * * * * * * Biography Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of young adult
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Booksamillion Canada: Amazon Kindle (DRM-free) Kobo (DRM-free) Chapters/Indigo Amazon.ca Audiobook: DRM-free download * * * 8 Metadata Document Metadata: Title: Pirate Cinema Creator: Cory Doctorow Rights: Copyright CorDoc-Co, Ltd (UK), 2012.; License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Subject: Novel Publisher: Tor Teen Version Information: Sourcefile
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Eastern standard tribe
by Cory Doctorow · 17 Feb 2004 · 190pp · 53,970 words
contemporary and deeply peculiar -- a hard combination to beat (or, these days, to find)." William Gibson, Author of Neuromancer -- "Cory Doctorow knocks me out. In a good way." Pat Cadigan, Author of Synners -- "Cory Doctorow is just far enough ahead of the game to give you that authentic chill of the future, and close
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it enough to check out this one. Thanks to Creative Commons for the licenses that give me the freedom to say "Some Rights Reserved." -- Bio Cory Doctorow (www.craphound.com) is the author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, A Place So Foreign and Eight More, and The Complete Idiot
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Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow · 29 Apr 2008 · 398pp · 120,801 words
Little Brother Cory Doctorow doctorow@craphound.com &&& READ THIS FIRST This book is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. That means: You are free:
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action-packed with tales of courage, technology, and demonstrations of digital disobedience as the technophile's civil protest." Bunnie Huang, author of HACKING THE XBOX # Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these
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hope for the future. Jane McGonical, Designer, I Love Bees # The right book at the right time from the right author -- and, not entirely coincidentally, Cory Doctorow's best novel yet. John Scalzi, author of OLD MAN'S WAR # It's about growing up in the near future where things have kept
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pitch-perfect. I couldn't put it down, and I loved it. Jo Walton, author of FARTHING # A worthy younger sibling to Orwell's 1984, Cory Doctorow's LITTLE BROTHER is lively, precocious, and most importantly, a little scary. Brian K Vaughn, author of Y: THE LAST MAN # "Little Brother" sounds an
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about the field and it shows in the excellent selection on display at the stores.]] [[Barnes and Noble, nationwide: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Little-Brother/Cory-Doctorow/e/9780765319852/?itm=6]] They re-shackled and re-hooded me and left me there. A long time later, the truck started to move, rolling
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seating, installing in-store self-service terminals and stocking the most amazing variety of titles.]] [[Chapters/Indigo: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Little-Brother-Cory-Doctorow/9780765319852-item.html]] I blogged the press-conference even before I'd sent out the invitations to the press. I could tell that all these
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Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet
by David Moon, Patrick Ruffini, David Segal, Aaron Swartz, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Laurie, Ron Paul, Mike Masnick, Kim Dotcom, Tiffiniy Cheng, Alexis Ohanian, Nicole Powers and Josh Levy · 30 Apr 2013 · 452pp · 134,502 words
Foreword by the Editors Hacking Politics: TLDR PART 1: The World Before SOPA/PIPA AARON SWARTZ For Me, It All Started with a Phone Call CORY DOCTOROW The History of the Copyright Wars JOSH LEVY Before SOPA There Was Net Neutrality MIKE MASNICK COICA, PIPA, and SOPA Are Censorship PART 2: The
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Movement ERIN MCKEOWN A Case for Digital Activism by Artists BRAD BURNHAM On the Freedom to Innovate MARVIN AMMORI SOPA and the Popular First Amendment CORY DOCTOROW Blanket Licenses: One Path Forward in Copyright Reform LAWRENCE LESSIG The Internet Can Help Strike at the Root Conclusion Aaron Swartz speaks at the New
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been pretty clear that anything preventing illegal speech must narrowly target just that kind of speech. Doing otherwise is what’s known as prior restraint. Cory Doctorow (writer and co-editor of “Boing Boing”): In perhaps the ultimate abuse of intermediary liability, Viacom, in a lawsuit against Google, argued that YouTube was
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content, which can be handled with a scalpel. Adding an additional layer that takes down an entire publication is where it stretches into clear censorship. Cory Doctorow This is like requiring everyone to open up their kids’ birthday parties to enforcers from Warner Music to ensure that no royalty-free performances of
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.S. Department of Justice the power to blacklist websites and tinker with the DNS system in ways the vast majority of Internet engineers thought unworkable. Cory Doctorow When movies were invented, Thomas Edison, who held key film-related patents, claimed the right to authorize the production of films, tightly controlling how many
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online and off. In the pieces that follow, several contributors to Hacking Politics help set the table for the SOPA/PIPA fight. Activist and author Cory Doctorow discusses the long history of battles over the breadth of copyright law; Josh Levy from Free Press links the SOPA/ PIPA effort to the fight
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as well give it a new name. And that’s when it began being called PIPA and eventually SOPA. THE HISTORY OF THE COPYRIGHT WARS CORY DOCTOROW Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger, and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and
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venture capitialist; Marvin Ammori writes of changing understandings of free speech rights as the public sphere relies ever more heavily on privately-owned online platforms; Cory Doctorow offers one (of many) potential paths forward for copyright reform; Lawrence Lessig urges those who were active in the SOPA/PIPA fight to muster once
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have made the Internet the world’s greatest medium for free and democratic discourse. BLANKET LICENSES: ONE OF MANY POTENTIAL PATHS FORWARD IN COPYRIGHT REFORM CORY DOCTOROW We are headed inexorably toward a world made of computers and networks—a world strung together by the Internet. And there is no way to
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a chance at money? That’s all copyright ever really wanted an answer to. On January 18, 2012 Boing Boing, the website co-edited by Cory Doctorow, blacked out its homepage. Visitors instead saw the message above. ON STRIKING THE ROOT LAWRENCE LESSIG Lawrence Lessig is the director of the Edmond J
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
by Cory Doctorow · 6 Oct 2025 · 313pp · 94,415 words
telling people how much you’re enjoying this book! Here, I’ll provide you with some explanatory text: Greetings, followers of my reader! This is Cory Doctorow writing to you, and your friend has very nearly finished reading my excellent 2025 book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do
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notice at the front of this book, fair use is a thing, and it covers what you just did. 2 Technically, an “iMessage message.” 3 Cory Doctorow, Little Brother (Tor Teen, Tom Doherty Associates, 2008). 4 A more up-to-date, less gendered name for this is machine in the middle. Restoring
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Labor 1 “From Businesses and Banks to Colleges and Churches: Americans’ Views of U.S. Institutions,” Pew Research Center, February 2024. Also by Cory Doctorow LITTLE BROTHER Little Brother Homeland Lawful Interceptions Attack Surface Spill MARTIN HENCH Red Team Blues The Bezzle Picks and Shovels FICTION Down and Out in
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of the Nerds Pirate Cinema Walkaway The Lost Cause A Place So Foreign and Eight More Overclocked The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow Radicalized GRAPHIC NOVELS Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now In Real Life NONFICTION The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Science Fiction Essential Blogging Content Ebooks
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Context All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free Chokepoint Capitalism The Internet Con A Note About the Author Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to safeguard and further
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News and There’s Good News Conclusion: Is Enshittification Just Capitalism? Acknowledgments Notes Also by Cory Doctorow A Note About the Author Copyright MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux 120 Broadway, New York 10271 Copyright © 2025 by Cory Doctorow All rights reserved First edition, 2025 Frontispiece art by No Ideas Cover art and design by
Someone comes to town, someone leaves town
by Cory Doctorow · 1 Jul 2005 · 390pp · 113,737 words
The Rapture of the Nerds
by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross · 3 Sep 2012 · 311pp · 94,732 words
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words
With a Little Help
by Cory Efram Doctorow, Jonathan Coulton and Russell Galen · 7 Dec 2010 · 549pp · 116,200 words
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia
by Becky Hogge, Damien Morris and Christopher Scally · 26 Jul 2011 · 171pp · 54,334 words
The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)
by Maximilian Kasy · 15 Jan 2025 · 209pp · 63,332 words
Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor
by Glyn Moody · 26 Sep 2022 · 295pp · 66,912 words
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words
The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last
by Jimmy Wales · 28 Oct 2025 · 216pp · 60,419 words
The Googlization of Everything:
by Siva Vaidhyanathan · 1 Jan 2010 · 281pp · 95,852 words
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection
by Gardner Dozois · 23 Jun 2009 · 1,263pp · 371,402 words
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing
by John Scalzi · 28 Jan 2007 · 168pp · 9,044 words
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson · 11 Sep 2013 · 397pp · 110,130 words
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
by Eben Kirksey · 10 Nov 2020 · 599pp · 98,564 words
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
Reset
by Ronald J. Deibert · 14 Aug 2020
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz · 4 Nov 2016 · 374pp · 97,288 words
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
by Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig · 5 Jan 2016 · 377pp · 110,427 words
Free culture: how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity
by Lawrence Lessig · 15 Nov 2004 · 297pp · 103,910 words
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World
by Bruce Schneier · 3 Sep 2018 · 448pp · 117,325 words
Your Computer Is on Fire
by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip · 9 Mar 2021 · 661pp · 156,009 words
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
by Bruce Schneier · 2 Mar 2015 · 598pp · 134,339 words
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Mar 2014 · 565pp · 151,129 words
Free Ride
by Robert Levine · 25 Oct 2011 · 465pp · 109,653 words
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov · 1 May 2017 · 331pp · 104,366 words
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by Brian Merchant · 25 Sep 2023 · 524pp · 154,652 words
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel · 30 Sep 2007 · 571pp · 162,958 words
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
Makers
by Chris Anderson · 1 Oct 2012 · 238pp · 73,824 words
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
by Frank Pasquale · 17 Nov 2014 · 320pp · 87,853 words
The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
by Justin Peters · 11 Feb 2013 · 397pp · 102,910 words
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
by Adam Aleksic · 15 Jul 2025 · 278pp · 71,701 words
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
by Chris Hayes · 28 Jan 2025 · 359pp · 100,761 words
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross · 13 Sep 2021 · 363pp · 109,077 words
Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
by Joanna Walsh · 22 Sep 2025 · 255pp · 80,203 words
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 3 Feb 2015 · 368pp · 96,825 words
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
by Bruce Schneier · 7 Feb 2023 · 306pp · 82,909 words
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by Astra Taylor · 4 Mar 2014 · 283pp · 85,824 words
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky · 28 Feb 2008 · 313pp · 95,077 words
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
by Peter Frase · 10 Mar 2015 · 121pp · 36,908 words
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
by Nicholas Carr · 5 Sep 2016 · 391pp · 105,382 words
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters
by Diane Coyle · 15 Apr 2025 · 321pp · 112,477 words
Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance
by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge · 29 Mar 2020 · 159pp · 42,401 words
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
by Rebecca MacKinnon · 31 Jan 2012 · 390pp · 96,624 words
Accelerando
by Stross, Charles · 22 Jan 2005 · 489pp · 148,885 words
Wireless
by Charles Stross · 7 Jul 2009
I Hate the Internet: A Novel
by Jarett Kobek · 3 Nov 2016 · 302pp · 74,350 words
Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation
by Chris Nodder · 4 Jun 2013 · 254pp · 79,052 words
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous
by Gabriella Coleman · 4 Nov 2014 · 457pp · 126,996 words
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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
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We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production
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Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing
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Old Man's War
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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The Trade of Queens
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Zero History
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
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Infinite Detail
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Geek Wisdom
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We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
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Zoe's Tale
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Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
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Drugs Without the Hot Air
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Glasshouse
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Clan Corporate
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Family Trade
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