Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future by Cory Doctorow
"The Internet’s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebrated with the first collection of his infamous articles, essays, and polemics. He leads off with a mutinous talk given at Microsoft on digital rights management, insisting that they stop treating their customers as criminals. Readers will discover how America chose Happy Meal toys over copyright, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how the Internet is basically just a giant Xerox machine, why Wikipedia is a poor cousin of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and how to enjoy free e-books.
Practicing what he preaches, all of the author’s books, including this one, are simultaneously released in print and on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their reuse and sharing."
Source: Regina Schroeder in Booklist
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