All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites

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(Paper delivered at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego, California, 16 March 2005)

on how AOL could stop spam by shutting off access to spammers, and doing more monitoring/verification, but that in the process it would break email. this is used as an analogy for DRM, etc (costs us innovation, and yet there's still piracy)


        Doctorow, C. (2008). All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites. In Doctorow, C. Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. Tachyon Publications, pp. 155-160

(verb) forbid / (verb) to ward off; prevent / (verb) protect preserve

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Heaven forfend.

—p.159 by Cory Doctorow

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Heaven forfend.

—p.159 by Cory Doctorow

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Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow