Cory Doctorow

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1,125 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

You have to warn people somewhere.

And he was just like, oh, you're being paranoid and unrealistic.

We had a little, this was like in the aughts when we had great fights on blogs.

It was like two men of letters exchanging lengthy misses.

Indeed.

So, yeah, it was... And, like, I went to Poughkeepsie, I went to Consumer Reports, and I was like, you're reviewing these products, but, like, none of them are fit for consumption because every product in the category can be remotely downgraded, right?

So, like, you cannot... You can't advise people, buy this because you want...

a device that will play back a certain file format or whatever, if that can be changed with no remedy on your part, no recourse, and no way to predict it.

Because, you know, one of the things about the timing of enshitification is that it came after a bunch of these lawsuits the Biden administration brought, where we got publication of memos from inside the companies that really showed you how these decisions are made, right?

So they're like, it's not a mustache-twirling CEO.

It's usually, like with government agencies...

or parts of government, it's factional disputes within companies.

And so like one of the things about DMCA 1201 is it's, I call it an enshitogenic policy because it means that the worst ideas, the worst people make the most money.

So it means that when you're arguing within the company, I think we should do X, I think we should do Y. So imagine there's no DMCA 1201.

Imagine there's no anti-circumvention law.

So we're like,

having a product planning meeting about our website, and I say, hey, I'd like to make the ads 20% more invasive and obnoxious, because I think that'll give us 2% more clicks.

And someone who doesn't give a damn about user welfare might still put their hand up and say, Elon, I love how you think, but has it occurred to you, like 40% of our users are going to type in the search bar, how do I block ads?

And of course, we never see revenue from them again, because no one ever goes back and types, how do I start seeing ads again, right?

But if it's the app, right, and there's anti-circumvention, and it's against the law to reverse engineer an app because apps are closed platforms, the web is open.

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