Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.
Cory DoctorowThe United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.
Cory DoctorowI can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
Cory Doctorow... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
Cory DoctorowIt's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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.
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