Cory Doctorow: Life in the Information Economy

According to Cory, we made a bet, some decades ago, that the information economy would be based on buying and selling information. We were totally, 100 percent wrong.

Cory is a great speaker: articulate, amusing and thought-provoking. If you’re at all interested in copyright, DRM or piracy then here’s the video.


Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.

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