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CONTENT - Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future,
Cory Doctorow
A word about this downloadable file:
Publication history and acknowledgments:
Dedication:
1. Introduction by John Perry Barlow
2. Microsoft Research DRM Talk
1. DRM systems don't work
2. DRM systems are bad for society
3. DRM systems are bad for biz
4. DRM systems are bad for artists
5. DRM is a bad business-move for MSFT
3. The DRM Sausage Factory
4. Happy Meal Toys versus Copyright: How America chose Hollywood and Wal-Mart, and why it's doomed us, and how we might survive anyway
5. Why Is Hollywood Making A Sequel To The Napster Wars?
6. You DO Like Reading Off a Computer Screen
7. How Do You Protect Artists?
8. It's the Information Economy, Stupid
9. Downloads Give Amazon Jungle Fever
10. What's the Most Important Right Creators Have?
11. Giving it Away
12. Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet
13. How Copyright Broke
14. In Praise of Fanfic
15. Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
1. Introduction
2. The problems
2.1 People lie
2.2 People are lazy
2.3 People are stupid
2.4 Mission: Impossible -- know thyself
2.5 Schemas aren't neutral
2.6 Metrics influence results
2.7 There's more than one way to describe something
3. Reliable metadata
16. Amish for QWERTY
17. Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
18. Free(konomic) E-books
19. The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights
20. When the Singularity is More Than a Literary Device: An Interview with Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil
21. Wikipedia: a genuine Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy -- minus the editors
22. Warhol is Turning in His Grave
23. The Future of Ignoring Things
24. Facebook's Faceplant
25. The Future of Internet Immune Systems
26. All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
27. READ CAREFULLY
28. World of Democracycraft
29. Snitchtown
30. Hope you enjoyed it! The actual, physical object that corresponds to this book is superbly designed, portable, and makes a great gift:
31. About the Author
Metadata
SiSU Metadata, document information
Manifest
SiSU Manifest, alternative outputs etc.
CONTENT - Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future,
I've been releasing my books online for free since my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, came out in 2003, and with every one of those books, I've included a little essay explaining why I do this sort of thing.
I was tempted to write another one of these essays for this collection, but then it hit me: this is a collection of essays that are largely concerned with exactly this subject.
You see, I don't just write essays about copyright to serve as forewards to my books: I write them for magazine,s, newspapers, and websites -- I write speeches on the subject for audiences of every description and in every nation. And finally, here, I've collected my favorites, the closest I've ever come to a Comprehensive Doctorow Manifesto.
So I'm going to skip the foreword this time around: the whole book is my explanation for why I'm giving it away for free online.
If you like this book and you want to thank me, here's what I'd ask you to do, in order of preference:
Now, on to the book!
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