Global Tel Link 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
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luxottica 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
media has a daddy complex Leak: Apple is demanding 50% of the revenue from its "Netflix for news" product Cory Doctorow
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rent seeking Thousands of prominent AI researchers tell Nature they won't have anything to do with its new paywalled journal Cory Doctorow
apres moi le deluge After industry adopts open video standards, MPEG founder says the end is nigh Cory Doctorow
market distortions The catastrophic consequences of the non-Neutral Net will be very hard to spot, until it's too late Cory Doctorow
agribusiness Modern Farmer on how the DMCA takes away farmers' rights over their tractors Cory Doctorow
rentiers Hedge funds buy swathes of foreclosed subprimes, force up rents, float rent-bonds Cory Doctorow
open governmentcanada Canada Post sues crowdsourced postal-code database, claims copyright in Canadian postal-codes Cory Doctorow
