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Inside: Johnson and Johnson's bankruptcy gambit fails; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/01/j-a…

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From Feb 8-17, I'll be in #Australia, touring my book #ChokepointCapitalism with my co-author, @rgibli. We'll be in #Brisbane, #Melbourne, #Sydney and #Canberra, and I hope to see you!

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Johnson and Johnson's bankruptcy gambit fails: A key defeat in J&J's War On Vulvas.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1620771587833077760

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Hey look at this

* Setting the Record Straight: @EFF Statement in Support of FCC Nominee @GigiNSohn eff.org/deeplinks/2023… 4/

#20yrsago #DVDs rot over time smh.com.au/national/a-bad…

#20yrsago Record exec argues for file-sharing salon.com/2003/02/01/fil…

#15yrsago Sony kills #DRM stores — your DRM music will only last until your next upgrade memex.craphound.com/2008/02/01/son… 5/

#15yrsago Amazon’s anti-DRM tee memex.craphound.com/2008/02/01/ama…

#15yrsago Chinese dissident’s “Rear Window” video of the cops keeping him under house arrest theguardian.com/news/video/200…

#10yrsago Dial-up handshaking illustrated windytan.com/2012/11/the-so… 6/

#10yrsago #RIAA bigwig who architected anti-technology lawsuits is now #2 at the #CopyrightOffice techdirt.com/2013/01/31/for… 7/

#10yrsago #Magic, #copyright, and internal enforcement mechanisms web.archive.org/web/2013020708… S Moorad Sports Law Journal/~/media/academics/journals/sportsandentertainmentlawjournal/docs/191/VLS_191_103.ashx 8/

#10yrsago Why can’t Americans look up their own case-law for free? sunlightfoundation.com/2013/02/01/ope…

#5yrsago LA’s soaring #homelessness is distorting the national statistics latimes.com/local/lanow/la… 9/

#5yrsago Teen Bo$$: a magazine advising tweens on how to get rich by being “social media brands” fashionista.com/2017/06/teen-b…

#5yrsago America’s school systems serve unencrypted web resources that are riddled with ad-tech trackers edtechstrategies.com/tracking-edu/ 10/

#5yrsago The latest #IoT #botnet displays evidence of a halfway clever botmaster technologyreview.com/2018/01/31/145…

#5yrsago The Germans have a word for all your hard-to-process Trump emotions web.archive.org/web/2018013109… 11/

#5yrsago An incredibly important paper on whether data can ever be “anonymized” and how we should handle release of large data-sets cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publi… 12/

#5yrsago GOP candidate Rick Saccone hates government waste, bills the public purse indiscriminately for his own personal expenses, which totalled $435,172 theintercept.com/2018/02/01/ric… 13/

#5yrsago Australia put an algorithm in charge of its benefits fraud detection and plunged the nation into chaos logicmag.io/justice/auster…

#1yrago The Mafia hires good accountants pluralistic.net/2022/02/01/col… 14/

Yesterday's threads: Canada's privatised shadow civil service; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1620476989294387216

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 16/

My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 17/

My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @beaconPressBks et al) 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."

craphound.com/shop/ 18/

Upcoming appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

* Avid Reader (#Brisbane), 2/8
avidreader.com.au/pages/6834-Cho…

* Future of Arts/Culture/Tech, @ACMI, (#Melbourne), 2/14
acmi.net.au/whats-on/in-co… 19/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @statelibrarynsw (#Sydney), 2/15
sl.nsw.gov.au/events/chokepo…

* ANU/@canberratimes Meet The Author (#Canberra), 2/16
anu.edu.au/events/in-conv…

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (#Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 20/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 21/

Recent appearances:

* @davidpakmanshow


* TikTok Isn’t For Creators Anymore (@Slate ICMY)
slate.com/podcasts/icymi…

* Lunch on Laotian food (Eating the Fantastic)
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