Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/17/boo…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/17/boo…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm at the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
I hope you can make it!
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Happy Public Domain Day 2026!: The best way to cut through the hellishly complex thicket and bring our culture back to life.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11573599…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-17 17:05:19
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It? wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-en…
* How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-…
* Who do they think you are? hidden-selves.wove.co/
* Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. taranis.ie/datacenters-in-spac… (h/t DSHR)
* Mobile Voting Project’s vote-by-smartphone has real security gaps blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/1…
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Mobile Voting Project's vote-by-smartphone has real security gaps - CITP Blog
Andrew Appel (CITP Blog)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrago Sony DRM Debacle Roundup Part V memex.craphound.com/2005/12/16…
#15yrsago Weird D&D advice-column questions comicsalliance.com/weird-dd-qu…
#10yrsago America’s permanent, ubiquitous tent-cities placesjournal.org/article/tent…
#10yrsago The changing world of webcomics business models web.archive.org/web/2015121813…
#10yrsago Cop who demanded photo of sexting-accused teen’s penis commits suicide arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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Cop who wanted to photograph teen’s erection in sexting case commits suicide
David Kravets (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Saudi millionaire acquitted of raping teen in London, says he tripped and accidentally penetrated her telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/cr…
#10yrsago Someone snuck skimmers into Safeway stores krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/sk…
#10yrsago Philips promises new firmware to permit third-party lightbulbs web.archive.org/web/2015121618…
#5yrsago Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925 pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fra…
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Skimmers Found at Some Calif., Colo. Safeways
krebsonsecurity.comCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Landmark US financial transparency law pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fra…
#5yrsago Chaos Communications Congress pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fra…
#5yrsago Email sabbaticals pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fra…
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Pluralistic: 16 Dec 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11573100…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-16 19:57:42
Cory Doctorow
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Cory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU)
vimeo.com/1146281673
* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHx…
* Enshittification on The Daily Show
youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5n…
* Enshittification with Four Ways to Change the World (Channel 4)
youtube.com/watch?v=tZQaEeuuI3…
* The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. (Novarra Media)
youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8G-d7Sn…
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Cory Doctorow at OCAD University - 27th November 2025
VimeoCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! (17 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm at the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
I hope you can make it!
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
EventbriteKynx
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V
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So if you write a book, you own it, and can extend permissions for use to others as you see fit, but they can never "own" it, you retain the capacity to retract those rights, extend them to others, etc. for the duration it's protected. (With death of the author(s) as a hard-limit on duration.)
Cory Doctorow
in reply to V • • •My goodness, this is a terrible idea.
So if I license your book to make a movie, and spend ten years of my life making it, and then release it, you can make me destroy it?
We'd replace the system whereby any musician is allowed to record any song by paying a fixed fee with one where you have to track down and license every composition?
We'd kill the ability of musicians to perform live covers by paying a blanket license?
Authors could delete your ebooks from your Kindle?
V
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"Retract those rights" was not the best way to phrase what I mean; I don't mean you can arbitrarily pull out of rights agreements, but that authors can't be locked out of their own creative works and have some authority to prevent things like their work going into some vault unused and unusable for 60 years.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to V • • •You're thinking of "Termination of Transfer":
pluralistic.net/2021/09/26/tak…
Take it back – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netV
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