"Move fast and break... Kings!" That's what Cory Doctorow calls for in his recent talk. We discuss a potential "post-American internet" future per that talk, then we weave in two related stories: Anna's Archive scraping virtually all of Spotify for torrenting, and Pitchfork launching a paywall.

No episode 2 weeks from now (Feb. 13), we return later in February.

(0:00) Intro

(2:15) Cory Doctorow talk

(38:35) Anna's Archive scrapes Spotify

(53:17) Pitchfork paywall

(1:02:17) Recommendations

Legal complaint against Anna's Archive here.

Recs: Will - listen to Catalog Club podcast series by Steven Hyden at Evil Speakers on Substack, which covered Lucinda Williams in January.

Carson - read Richard Powers novels, including The Echo Maker which Carson gave to Will.

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