Cory Doctorow

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

who was a farmer who had this happen.

His neighbor's seed blew onto his land.

I remember the story.

And he was shut down by the federal government of Canada because they have an obligation under WIPO treaties, under these UN treaties that protect intellectual property, they have an obligation to enforce Monsanto's patents

in Canada, and so Monsanto shut him down.

This is happening in India.

Suicides among farmers are very high in India, and a lot of it has to do with the rising prices of these foundational inputs to agriculture, seed and fertilizer and pesticides.

The parochial preferences of individual firms and the people who run them and their shareholders.

And you said we all own shares in these companies, but really like the median American worker has $955 saved for retirement.

So we don't own shares in all these companies.

And your banker.

And they will say, well, like you knew when you bought your phone that you could only install Apple apps on it.

And you knew when you bought the ebook that it wouldn't belong to you and so on and so on.

And my rebuttal to that is like, you knew when you entered the stream of commerce that since time immemorial, if you sell me something, it's mine.

If you're so emotionally fragile that you can't believe that when I buy a device, I decide what software is on it, then maybe it's not that I bought the wrong thing.

Maybe you shouldn't be in this line of business.

I'm a writer.

I work in books.

I'm a recovering bookseller and library worker too.

I love books.

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