Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down

Pixsy and the depravity of speculative invoicing.

5 min readJan 31, 2022

A hand on a multibutton mouse, the body behind it is blurred and out-of-focus; a larger ‘DANGER’ label in red, white and black, has been superimposed over it. Image: Nenad Stojkovic (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hand_on_the_computer_mouse_-_50202556601.jpg CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

This week on my podcast, I read my Medium column “A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator,” describing my bizarre run-in with a group of copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down for $600.

Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down

Pixsy and the depravity of speculative invoicing.

Written by Cory Doctorow