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The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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Cory Efram Doctorow
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Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.
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Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
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The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?
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Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
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When you teach your students that it's economically rational to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.
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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.
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Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
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Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
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I choose YouTube over telly.
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Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
Cory Doctorow
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
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Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
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