Corry Doctorow, published a couple of days ago a series of podcasts, where he narrates Bruce Sterling’s Hacker Crackdown. He writes:

Since last June, I’ve been podcasting a weekly reading from Bruce Sterling’s 1992 classic journalistic history of the founding of the online civil liberties movement, The Hacker Crackdown, which chronicles the events that led to the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, my former employer. Hacker Crackdown was the first book I ever read electronically, the first piece of “literary freeware” I ever met. It’s a fantastic book and it was a fantastic read.

If you want to download each podcast seperately (with the comments of Corry at the beginning), you can do it at ‘Podcast of Bruce Sterling’s HACKER CRACKDOWN has concluded‘.

I took the liberty to download them all and edit them, removing the introductory talk of Corry. After Sensoz’s proposal, I have put the whole mp3 file in a public torrent so that everyone can download it.

You can download the edited version here.

I haven’t listened to the whole book until now, but it is surely a great read (listen). I must say, though, that Corry’s comments are sometimes also worth listening.