Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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And one of the things about having worked in this now for most of my adult life on these tech policy issues is that I know...
that this outcome was not only foreseeable, but foreseen, right?
There were specific junctures where policymakers said, we should do X. And everyone showed up and said, don't do X. This terrible stuff is going to happen.
And they were like, nah.
And so, you know, like on the one hand, it makes me very angry and feel a little vindicated.
But on the other hand, it makes me hopeful because like, if we can move this beyond the great forces of history and like,
Oh, it's just, you know, like the iron laws of economics demand that things, you know, margins be squeezed where they can be and move it into the realm of like specific policy choices.
Well, then we can reverse them, right?
We're not prisoners of history.
We're just people whose leaders were cowardly and short-sighted and selfish and bad at their jobs.
And so, you know...
There's obvious remedies for that.
They don't always involve a guillotine.
It's a little of both.
So, you know, there's a specific one that I'm particularly exercised about.
So there's this law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from 1998, DMCA.
Section 1201 of the DMCA establishes a felony for modifying technology without permission.
So like if someone sells you a printer that only takes the ink from HP and you modify it to take generic ink, then that's a felony.
That's a crime.
Yeah.
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