Showing posts with label monopoly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monopoly. Show all posts
Thursday, January 23, 2025

The Predatory Side of Amazon?

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Cory Doctorow analyzes in detail how, in his view, Amazon has developed bait-and-switch strategies to take advantage of both vendors and cus...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

Technofeudalism

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Cory Doctorow advances the position that capitalism isn't evolving into socialism (as classical Marxism predicted) but into a new form o...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Intermediaries on the Internet

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Another post by Cory Doctorow about how good platforms go bad and, by extension, how the internet goes bad: Intermediation Why didn'...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Bad People Versus Bad Institutions

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In his latest LOCUS essay, Cory Doctorow discusses whether "all the internet services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly ...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Corporate Bullies and Copyright

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Cory Doctorow's article for the November 2022 LOCUS discusses the ever-increasing reach of monopolies that prey on the work of writers a...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Big Tech Tyranny?

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Cory Doctorow's March LOCUS column discusses tech tycoons from the perspective of monopoly and world domination. Well, that phrase may b...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Monopolies and Interoperabilty

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Another LOCUS article by Cory Doctorow on monopolies and trust-busting: Tech Monopolies He begins this essay by stating that he doesn...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Quantitative and Qualitative

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column analyzes the difference between quantitative and qualitative measurements and the pitfalls of depend...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Problems with Monopolies

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Cory Doctorow's LOCUS article for this month delves into a lot of background about markets and monopolies that's new to me: Free M...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

On Intellectual Property

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Cory Doctorow has an unusually long, information-dense post this bimonth, about the background of the concept of intellectual property: IP...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

The "Catch" in Author's Monopoly

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Cory Doctorow's March LOCUS column asserts, "A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick": Lever Without a Fulcrum The ...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Freedom of Speech Online

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the distinction between freedom of speech in the legal sense and the pragmatic limitations ...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Monopolies, Publishing, and Online Media

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Cory Doctorow's latest column briefly surveys the history of antitrust enforcement, considers the effect on creative artists of the conc...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Intellectual Property Rights, Hypocrisy, Transparency, Immorality (By Others)

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I mean to write about government "consent degrees", which seems to me to be an Orwellian term for the situation where authors (whe...