Steal This Show

In this episode we meet Cory Doctorow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss) , sci-fi author and co-founder of Boing Boing (https://boingboing.net/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss) . Cory’s most recent book, Walkaway, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkaway_(Doctorow_novel)?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss) is a story of refusing a life of surveillance and control under a high-tech oligarchy and the struggle to live in a post-scarcity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss)  gift economy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss)  where even death has been defeated. Over this one hour plus interview we discuss: Whether filesharing & P2P communities have lost the battle to streaming services like Netflix and Spotify, and why the ‘copyfight’ is still important How the European Copyright Directive eats at the fabric of the Web, making it even harder to compete with content giants Why breaking up companies