crypto Self-proclaimed "Crypto Landlords" are making money by renting out NFTs Thom Dunn

books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The inspiring story of how Cloudflare defeated a patent troll and broke the patent-trolling business-model Cory Doctorow

publishing Elsevier: "It's illegal to Sci-Hub." Also Elsevier: "We link to Sci-Hub all the time." Cory Doctorow

health One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000% Cory Doctorow

Business Leak: Apple is demanding 50% of the revenue from its "Netflix for news" product Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Houseplant patent EULA: "Asexual reproduction using scions, buds or cutting is strictly prohibited" Cory Doctorow

health America is the world's first poor rich country Cory Doctorow

scholarship Thousands of prominent AI researchers tell Nature they won't have anything to do with its new paywalled journal Cory Doctorow

Copyfight After industry adopts open video standards, MPEG founder says the end is nigh Cory Doctorow

net neutrality The catastrophic consequences of the non-Neutral Net will be very hard to spot, until it's too late Cory Doctorow

Business Modern Farmer on how the DMCA takes away farmers' rights over their tractors Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Canada Post drops legal claim over crowdsourced postal code database Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Zombie company Atari wants exclusive right to make haunted house games Cory Doctorow

Business High profits mean capitalism is cooked Cory Doctorow

trump trials Mike Pence hits Donald Trump under oath by zapping a comma from his book Carla Sinclair

donald trump MAGA genius reveals that JFK Jr is alive and selling pillows Mark Frauenfelder