![]() ![]() To make matters even worse, Fox is not the only party going after Doctorow’s books. BRING ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF RUPERT MURDOCH!” Doctorow says. “I think you can safely say I’m incandescent with rage. Without hesitation he called for drastic action to be taken against the head honcho of the content empire. TorrentFreak confronted Cory Doctorow with these dystopian findings and the author was outraged by the gross abuse of his rights. Shown below is an example of a typical notice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 being sent out, and here’s an even bigger list. For a few weeks none other than 20th Century Fox has been sending DMCA takedown requests to Google for Doctorow’s novel.įox’s idea is to make pirated copies of the TV-series Homeland harder to find, but as collateral damage they’re also taking down the novel. ![]() After all, obscurity is a much bigger problem than piracy for most authors.Īs a result copies of the novel are shared for free on hundreds of sites, and this attracted the attention of a Hollywood studio. Published by Tor Books, Homeland is available for sale in most book stores, but because of its Creative Commons license people are also free to share the book online. The setting of the fictional book is a realistic scenario according to activists, and on a small scale the book itself has now become the center of a censorship row. Cory Doctorow’s latest novel Homeland tells the story of an infowar, the suppression of information and the fight against censorship. ![]()
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