Post-American Internet | Upsample 027

"Move fast and break... Kings!" That's what Cory Doctorow calls for in his recent talk:    • A post-American, enshittification-resistan...   We discuss a potential "post-American internet" future per that talk, then we weave in two related stories: Anna's Archive scraping virtually all of Spotify for torrenting, and Pitchfork launching a paywall. No episode 2 weeks from now (Feb. 13), we return later in February (0:00) Intro (2:15) Cory Doctorow talk (38:35) Anna's Archive scrapes Spotify (53:17) Pitchfork paywall (1:02:17) Recommendations Legal complaint against Anna's Archive: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.co... Recs: Will - listen to Catalog Club podcast series by Steven Hyden at Evil Speakers on Substack, which covered Lucinda Williams in January: https://stevenhyden.substack.com/p/in... Carson - read Richard Powers novels, including The Echo Maker which Carson gave to Will FIND US: Will -Rhythm Changes: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/ -Instagram:   / williamchernoff   Carson -Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ctworow.bsky... -Instagram:   / ctworow