I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe?
Cory DoctorowUniversal 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 DoctorowWe donโt care about what you did yesterdayโwe care about what youโre going to do tomorrow.
Cory DoctorowRight, and you point out something important which is that people who donโt want to pay, people who are pirates, donโt get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. Itโs only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.
Cory DoctorowThe good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.
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