May 6, 2019
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#276 – Twenty Years After Napster: Cory Doctorow On What Went Wrong
Digital media has been gentrified into a mall, says the digital rights activist and author.
Jesse Brown
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Cory Doctorow tells Jesse how consolidation and platform silos keep the biggest tech and media companies on top, at our expense.


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