By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026This is the thesis of *Chokepoint Capitalism*, the book on Big Tech, Big Media, and creative labor markets Rebecca Giblin and I published in 2022: www.beacon.org/Chokepoint-C...beacon.org Beacon Press: Chokepoint Capitalism 1293
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026*Chokepoint Capitalism* is broken into two parts: the first half of the book is a series of pitiless, plain-language dissections of the baroque scams that media companies have used to make themselves richer from our work, from Spotify to Amazon to Livenation and beyond. 1264
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026From reader feedback, I can tell you that these chapters will make you *very* angry, because once you strip away all the deliberate obfuscation, all you're left with is one screw-job after another, each of which makes the creators you love poorer even as you pay more for their work. 1312
