Cory Doctorow

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

And they had booby trapped the train to detect if it was parked in someone

else's maintenance yard and then make itself inoperable.

And one of the rectangles they drew around a train maintenance yard, they drew it too wide and it went over a piece of mainline track.

So trains that went over this, it would just stop working.

And then they threatened to sue, well, they are suing the researchers.

They threatened to sue a Polish member of parliament for talking about this in parliament.

So you reminded me, I didn't finish telling you how this law came into effect and why I know that they were warned about it and what kind of politician passed it.

So during the Clinton administration, Bill Clinton asked Al Gore to think about demilitarizing the internet, because the internet was like, it started in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and it was run by like military contractors and universities with military contracts, few weird hobbyists and high-tech companies, but mostly it was just US government, military, and it's like kind of cluster military industrial firms.

And so Al Gore did this thing called the National Information Infrastructure Hearings.

They were called colloquially the Information Superhighway.

You may remember that term.

And Clinton had this guy who was his IP czar, so his head of copyright policy, corporate lawyer named Bruce Lehman, still alive in Florida.

Hi, Bruce.

And Bruce Lehman had this idea for what became DMCA 1201, this anti-circumvention law that would basically make it illegal to unrig the system.

And he took it to Al Gore.

And to Al Gore's everlasting credit, he said, no, that's terrible.

Go away.

And so Bruce Lehman, in a move that he has later repeatedly described as, quote, doing an end run around Congress, went to the United Nations in Geneva.

And there's a specialized agency there called the World Intellectual Property Organization.

You may remember them from saying to South Africa, you can't make your own anti-retrovirals.

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