Disney has lost Roger Rabbit: Termination of Transfer is the most pro-artist form of copyright.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-18 15:15:05

Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called *Who Censored Roger Rabbit?* which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?* But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length sequels.

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Hey look at this

* NZ Supreme Court says Uber drivers are employees courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/case…

* Excellence over mediocrity, from Mamdani to Marx to food coreyrobin.com/2025/11/15/exce…

* Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats theverge.com/news/820600/googl…

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#20yrsago Amazon offers refunds for all Sony rootkit CDs craphound.com/amznxmpsonycd.tx…

#20yrsago Uninstaller for Sony’s other malware screws up your PC blog.citp.princeton.edu/2005/1…

#20yrsago Schneier: Why didn’t anti-virus apps defend us against Sony’s rootkit? web.archive.org/web/2005112412…

#20yrsago Sony still advising public to install rootkits web.archive.org/web/2005112405…

#15yrsago Hilarious story of disastrous cross-country move with dogs hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com…

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#15yrsago UK gov’t promises to allow telcos to hold Brits hostage on “two-speed” Internet bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-117…

#15yrsago Sexually assaulted by a TSA groper web.archive.org/web/2010111600…

#10yrsago Former ISIS hostage: they want us to retaliate theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#10yrsago There is no record of US mass surveillance ever preventing a large terror attack theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-…

#10yrsago The final Pratchett: The Shepherd’s Crown memex.craphound.com/2015/11/17…

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#10yrsago DRM in TIG welders youtube.com/watch?v=b6mlr_MX2V…

#10yrsago We treat terrorism as more costly than it truly is timharford.com/2015/11/nothing…

#10yrsago David Cameron capitulates to terror, proposes Britain’s USA Patriot Act web.archive.org/web/2015111715…

#5yrsago Storage Wars pluralistic.net/2020/11/17/u-s…

#5yrsago Cross-Media Sci-Fi with Amber Benson and John Rogers pluralistic.net/2020/11/17/u-s…

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Yesterday's threads: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-17 17:10:16

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/17/sto…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: The games industry’s self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025)

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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:

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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:

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Picks and Shovels

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new...

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
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* Virtual: Enshittification at the Internet Archive, Nov 21
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* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
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* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
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* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…

* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…

* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…

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Recent appearances:

* Enshittification with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel (Peoples & Things)
newbooksnetwork.com/cory-docto…

* Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now, with Tim Wu (OII
youtube.com/watch?v=CkYxMQJ9c9…

* Working it out: Job security in the AI era (Web Summit)
websummit.com/summaries/lis25/…

* How to dis-Enshittify the world (Blood In the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to…

* Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure
youtube.com/watch?v=F8JuXDfDtB…

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #London, #Toronto and #SanDiego!

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