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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the WIPO Copyright Treaty

The key to achieving this is anticircumvention rules, which were first mandated in 1996 via a pair of international copyright treaties.15 Developed in response to fears from rights holders that the easy copying and distribution facilitated by the internet might destroy their business models, the tr…

—p.24 Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back CHAPTER 2 How Amazon Took Over Books (20) by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin
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their supply chains are colonized by powerful corporations

[...] Platforms are often distinguished from traditional “pipeline” businesses, which have producers at one end and consumers at the other. But these create chokepoints too: as when record labels and music publishers accrue vast reservoirs of copyrights and use them to extract maximum value for the…

—p.15 CHAPTER 1 Big Business Captured Culture (2) by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin
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legal structures outside of antitrust

We agree there is an urgent need to reform antitrust law and enforcement and certainly criticize existing approaches in the pages that follow. But antitrust should not be relied upon to do all the heavy lifting. In this book, we explore how the chokepoints enabling corporations to extract more than…

—p.12 CHAPTER 1 Big Business Captured Culture (2) by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin
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wide, sustainable moats

While competition is supposed to be central to capitalism, the wealthiest people alive today have gotten rich by suppressing it. They’re brazen about it too. Peter Thiel famously announced in 2014 that “competition is for losers” and counseled companies to monopolize their domains. Business schools…

—p.6 CHAPTER 1 Big Business Captured Culture (2) by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin
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maximizing short-term consumer welfare

Then the Chicago School pulled off a brilliant coup. They promoted an antitrust theory that dispensed with the idea of citizenship altogether; instead, they insisted anti-monopoly regulators should limit themselves to thinking about “consumer welfare,” forgetting all that high-minded stuff about “d…

—p.4 CHAPTER 1 Big Business Captured Culture (2) by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin