review:
Got this off kickstarter - the author at the time had mentioned that Amazon Audible required a really shit deal of signing over stuff and not being able to have a DRM free experience. The book is a really good 'manifesto' for what has gone wrong with the internet and digital services through rampant abuse of copyright and IP. Much of it is about interoperability - so we all can do what we want to do with stuff. I was surprised to read that the solution is really a better alignment of laws (rather than replacement or overhaul which are exhuberant and expensive) with the intention of 'interoperability' so that we get more competition and better innovation from the grassroot upwards. The book was poignant, restricted in its argument (which is a good thing), and offered a good purview of history to understand why we arrived here and what kind of backsteps we need to get out of the sinkhole. This also made me buy 2 other books from Doctorow, and to support a third on Kickstarter.,