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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 13:41:22 JST Cory Doctorow

This week on my podcast, I read my recent @medium column, "How To Think About #Scraping: In #privacy and #labor fights, copyright is a clumsy tool at best," which proposes ways to retain the benefits of scraping without the privacy and labor harms that sometimes accompany it:
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-think-about-scraping-2db6f69a7e3d?sk=4a1d687171de1a3f3751433bffbb5a96
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/25/deep-scrape/#steering-with-the-windshield-wipers
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