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Cory Doctorow / 9:03 am Tue, Nov 8, 2016

CBC threatens podcast app makers, argues that RSS readers violate copyright

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation publishes several excellent podcasts, notably the As It Happens feed; like every podcast in the world, these podcasts are available via any podcast app in the same way that all web pages can be fetched with all web browsers — this being the entire point of podcasts.
Cory Doctorow / 9:31 am Thu, Sep 15, 2016

European Commission wants to break the web, give publishers the right to charge for inbound links

The European Commission's "copyright modernisation" plan is an unmitigated disaster, but there's one particularly insane section of it that I want to call your attention to: the "link tax," which entitles publishers to payment when people link to them on the internet.