February 16, 2006

Doctorow on Blogs, DRM, Privacy

Great interview (part one, and
part two
) with Cory Doctorow in Red Hat Magazine:

"I don't think that... information necessarily wants to be free or doesn't want to be free or whatever. I just think that...if your business model is based on bits not getting copied you are screwed."

"I think that in order to be a technology activist, you have to be an optimist and a pessimist. You have to be an optimist in that you believe that technology can be a tool for genuine liberation ... and positive social change and for democracy.... You have to rather devote your energy to seeing to it that those positive outcomes from technology come to being."

Posted by Paul at February 16, 2006 03:47 PM