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The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Hackers, Punk Capitalists and Graffiti Millionaires are Remixing Culture – Matt Mason, 2008

Wonderful for spirited tales of rebellious creativity; infuriating for woolly logic and wild overclaims (who knew graffiti “inspired amazing new technologies”?). Arguing for an open-source world, Mason flits from a WWII jetty with its own stamps, to tagging Air Force 1, to the DJ nun who inspired Mancuso. Colourful, intriguing, but needs a remix before it's a solid argument about copyright.
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