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law Do It For State: epic domain name shakedown article Rob Beschizza

youtube Horace Goes Copyright Striking Rob Beschizza

tabloids How Mafia Killed the Pope, Meghan & Harry quit the Royal Family, and the Obamas divorce, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

music Exploitative news clip about London punk squatters in 1983 David Pescovitz

domains Man waited 9 years to pounce on squatted domain name Rob Beschizza

scams Thanks to the 2008 foreclosure crisis, a Kuwaiti ponzi schemer was able to single-handedly blight cities across America Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse Cory Doctorow

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videos Bruce Sterling on the next 50 years of climate-wracked maker architecture Cory Doctorow

photography Welcome to Slab City, the "last free place" David Pescovitz

happy mutants Touring the haunting ruins of abandoned Second Life university campuses Cory Doctorow

Business English and Welsh local governments use "terrorism" as the excuse to block publication of commercial vacancies Cory Doctorow

uk The UK's surveillance regulator changed names and dropped its domain, which is now squatted by a premature ejaculation scammer Cory Doctorow

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