Cory Doctorow

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

It should be really easy to go from one service to another, what's called interoperability, where things plug into each other.

I remember this period.

And that was because there were hundreds of them.

And when there's hundreds of companies, they're a rabble, right?

They can't agree not just on what their policy position is.

They can't agree on what they'll cater the meeting where they try to work out the policy issue, right?

You know what it's like getting even a dozen people to agree.

And I watched the media industry kick their ass, right?

So they were like two orders of magnitude larger than the media industry during the Napster Wars.

But there were seven media companies, which are now five.

And the media companies had one playbook, right?

And whether they were in Congress or in a court or at WIPO or whatever, they just said the same thing.

And there was this incredible unity that you get when you boil down a large group to a small group.

And what we did is rather than making media more like tech, we made tech more like media.

And now we've got like an internet that's five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four.

And they totally agree on all the ways that we should be screwed.

And in fact, they've more or less merged with these media companies.

This amazing thing has happened more or less since Google and Shitified in the last six or seven years, which is that everywhere in the world we've seen this almost spontaneous upwelling of policymakers taking aim at monopolies.

right, at concentrated corporate power.

There's a famous study at a Princeton, they call it colloquially the oligarch study because it's got a very long academic name.

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