Cory Doctorow
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1,125 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the thing where when I sell you a book, it belongs to you,
That's not just older than like copyright.
It's older than printing.
It's older than bound books.
It's older than paper.
We have scrolls on papyrus that this was the deal for, right?
So it can't have come as a surprise to anyone who decided to sell books that the deal with the book is you bought it, you own it.
It's your goddamn book.
And so like when someone says to me, oh, why did you buy the e-book?
We had the fine print.
It very clearly said by buying this book, you agree that I'm allowed to come over to your house and punch your grandmother, wear your underwear, make long distance calls and eat all the food in your fridge.
You knew when you clicked, I agree.
That's a great one.
Although this is much older.
So this is one of my weird special subjects.
You only have one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The history of debt.
So the first money we have, before we had coin money, we had debt ledgers.
And debt ledgers were because of agriculture in ancient Babylon.
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