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Proud Robot
Author: Henry Kuttner
Year: 1943

Apart from great entertainment, this hilarious story touches upon issues that are still relevant: frivolous patents to curtail competition, unconventional ways of distributing video that both annoys the content owners & hurts their bottomlines, & DRM (yes - DRM in a 1943 story!). While its technology is unrecognizable today, some of the issues remain relevant.

But the best part of the story is humor - story to be read with suspended credulity.

(Variety-SF)