Cory Doctorow

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1,125 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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

And sometimes that just ends up neutralizing everything.

They'd be like, yo, get this guy off the premises.

Sure.

Yeah, in the book, I call this the Darth Vader MBA, right?

As in, I'm altering the deal.

Pray I don't alter it any further, right?

Like, that is the one lesson of the Darth Vader MBA.

I gave you deal X, and now it's deal Y.

And, you know, this is a fight I've been having about, so these technologies that restrict access that are covered by Section 12.1 of the DMC and these other laws, they're called a lot of different things.

One of them is digital rights management.

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

DRM.

So this is a thing I've been beating the drum about for like more than 20 years.

And one of the things – I used to write for Wired.

I still write for them sometimes.

But I was writing for Wired and my editor at the time was this guy, Chris Anderson, really good guy.

And they published this guide to things to buy this Christmas, electronics to buy this Christmas.

And I wrote a blog post saying this guide is all wrong because all these products have DRM and they can be remotely downgraded.

So you cannot review a product and say if you want X, Y, and Z –

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