Cory Doctorow

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

During the height of the AIDS crisis.

So that was all policy set at WIPO.

So he went to WIPO and he said, we're going to make this into a treaty obligation.

And it became these two treaties.

We call them the WIPO Internet Treaties.

One's the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the other one's the WIPO Performers and Phonograms Treaty.

But the Internet Treaties.

Then he went back to Congress and he said, well, now you can't say no.

You're obliged to pass this law.

Yeah.

And so that's how we got it.

So the question is what kind of politician did it?

Did we mistake them for working for us, working for them?

I mean, the Clinton administration, like every presidency, was a coalition of people who wanted different things.

And oftentimes the way those coalitions are managed is across purposes.

So in the Biden administration, you had these like generationally amazing trust busters like Lena Kahn, who brought these cases against companies like Microsoft when they wanted to buy Activision.

Then you had judges that Biden appointed, including one whose son worked for Microsoft, who heard that case and said, I don't see a problem with this, right?

And so you often get that within administrations.

You get people who really want opposite things.

And there's this kind of division of the spoils.

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