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#Copyright ~ Cory Doctorow​, People who want to buy my stuff must know it exists. Obscurity is the enemy of being paid. Copying solves the 'getting your artistic work to your audience' problem. Families with internet access have better lives on every axis, including nutrition, jobs, education, political engagement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfU6e6--izo

#Copyright ~ Cory Doctorow​, People who want to buy my stuff must know it exists. Obscurity is the enemy of being paid. Copying solves the 'getting your artistic work to your audience' problem. Families with internet access have better lives on every axis, including nutrition, jobs, education, political engagement.

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 the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel Little Brother . He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London. Artists' problem is not poverty, but obscurity. His books are free, but they are digital - digital happens on a device on which sustained attention is difficult, so you would buy the book - you pay close attention to a book. Nerdvana  Scifi shows the anxieties we have about the technologies around us today. Technological Stalinism When you solve a problem you become a problem because you are invested in hanging around to keep solving the problem. Commercial and non-commercial rights can apply to the same work - the guy who make Transformers owns one of Doctorow's books for commercial activ...

It's problematic to ban social networking on "official" machines, which only pushes personnel to use these things on "unofficial" machines with "unofficial" ISPs, where you're less likely to detect attacks and it's harder to respond to them. Bring them in-house, in a controlled way, where you can better manage security issues and have happier personnel ( emphasis added , fetsi). Source: Dan Wallach, Freedom to Tinker

Write headlines explanatively: so that people know if they want to read it. Being honest with your reader means they will come back, if you are disrespect the reader (take them on a hunt for the post to rack up hits, treating them like sticky eyeballs, eyes for their ads) they won't come back. Post informative and densely factual posts: not in your own personal shorthand, but something someone can understand immediately. First sentence must describe whole article: readers will be grateful, attention-conservation notices. Link to extensive info: Give the short bit and link to more. Attention economy: treat your readers like their attention is valuable. Data Valdezes: personal data hemorrhaging from 'secure' databases. Try anything: because the cost of collaboration, creating info, experimenting is so low, people are more creative and progress is easy, e.g. blogging - try it, don't like it, leave it. Write what you find interesting: Boing Boing doesn't w...

An interview by Boing Boing . Combing the three types makes a good speaker: • Inspirational/Motivational • Advocates for a cause • Informational speaker www.whooshboomsplat.net for a cute video about the book.

Notes from an interview he did with Boing Boing . • renewed interest in Tim Leary and the use of psychedelics for spiritual discovery • you now get psychedelic fundamentalists • new things that get discovered have to be evangelized because we have access to share-technology • Hegelian dialectic - combative/oppositional has had it's day - we must engage with knowledge/our opposers. Find alternative ways of understanding and applying experiences. • Reality is an open-source proposition and are up for discussion, they are not laws - this is the basic thing he thinks he is writing about in all his media. We still have the opportunity to engage in mankind's next renaissance - as programmers of it. • Bible as comic book - people inside the panel -gods outside the panel. When the gods reach into the panel they show up as a burning bush. Added modern storyline. Modern echoes to the echoes of the Bible stories. Daily, modern relevance - God tells us not to sacrifice our children t...

This is my desktop. I spent hours pottering around the Internet googling 'winged girls' and found only the siliconed, botoxed fantasy girls spewed out by masturbating men (and those spewed out by women that accept the macho masturbatory standard). "Fuck that for a loop," I spat. A Cory Doctorow bookcover provided the girl.

Discussion on 702: • Make consumers unsure of whether they are getting what they pay for. Distribute DVD movies to the sellers of pirated movies that half way through a screen comes up and says that its a pirated version and that the small amount of money consumers have paid for the DVD has been donated to a fund to return money to the artists. And don't give the consumers the end of the movie. • Usury punished. Consumers can buy local artists through the internet for cheaper than in a local shop. Consumers feel cheated and justify their copyright infringements.

What if it were more expensive to produce and more expensive to distribute. If the economic rationale for creating a monopoly is that without it we would never get investment, then we should only create monopolies for investments that are taking place. Cory Doctorow, in response to a statement by an interviewer that: It is less expensive to produce and less expensive to distribute if you centralise operations in video distribution.