‘Printing A New Reality’, with Cory Doctorow

In this episode we meet Cory Doctorow, sci-fi author and co-founder of Boing Boing. Cory’s most recent book, Walkaway, 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 gift economy 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 like Google and Facebook might be the only way to restore an internet — and a society — we can all live with. After taking a detour into Cory’s views on cryptocurrency and Bitcoin’s chances of ”bailing out’ an economy saturated with fictitious money,  we move onto discussing Walkaway and a future of ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’ versus one of mega-rich plutocrats (think Bezos) controlling the economy — and our lives — via massive machine empires.  How do we exit from a scenario in which machines make everything plentiful — but none of them are owned by us? Showrunner & Host Jamie King | Editor Lucas Marston (Hollagully) Original Music David Triana | Web Production Eric Barch Presented by TorrentFreak Sponsored by Private Internet Access Executive Producers: Mark Zapalac, Eric Barch, Nelson Larios, George Alvarez, Adam Burns, Daniel, Grof. Sponsorship slots are currently full. For future sponsorship opportunities, please email info@stealthisshow.com