Cory Doctorow – Part 1: Newspapers, Big Tech, Link Tax, DRM and Right to repair

Author, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the evolution of newspapers, the role and threats posed by big tech, the collateral damage created by link taxes and the impact of digital rights management systems (DRM) on our daily lives, including on our right to repair

Highlights with timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:05 Cory talks about the link tax, Craigslist, monopolies and how this is impacting the press especially newspapers and also how the internet impacted the press and what needs to be done 
17:22 Cory explains why he feels that link taxes affect the smaller startups platforms more as compared to the big tech monopolies and why it’s a recurring motif in copyright fights involving monopolists
20:30 Cory talks about digital rights management or DRM, what it means generally and in specifics and what it is all about 
23:17 Cory talks about how the digital rights management don’t serve the user rights and how it also hurts the publishers 
28:06 Cory talks about the John Deere case that he wrote about recently and how it became the best sellers of tractors by using DRM 
33:58 Cory shares his thoughts on the John Deere case in terms of security and also talks about what could be done 

Shows Mentioned:
Open Rights Group: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ 
Craigslist: http://www.craigslist.org/ 
Google: http://www.google.com/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ 
Apple: https://www.apple.com/ 
Safari: http://www.apple.com/safari 
Nasdaq: https://www.nasdaq.com/ 
Google Book Search: https://books.google.com/books?uid=117522004192189783614 
AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com/ 
Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/ 
Digital Millennium Copyright Act: https://www.copyright.gov/dmca/ 
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ 
Macmillan: https://macmillanlibrary.com/ 
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ 

Quotes Mentioned:
“We should acknowledge that the press is in trouble financially.”
“If you don't know what's causing the problem, then simply doing something won't necessarily fix it.”
“A tractor without its software is just an inanimate lump of metal.”
“If you're not paying for the product, you're the product.”
“Publishing is connecting an audience with a work.”
“All the e-books are priced the same, thanks to various most favored nation deals between Amazon and the publishers and the other ebook stores.”
“One of the reasons e-book sales went down would probably be because people got tired of reading off of screens.” 

Guests Social Media Links:
Guests Social Media Links: 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-doctorow-a96558195/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cory.doctorow.75 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cory_doctorow/ 
Website: https://www.eff.org/ 
Personal website: https://craphound.com/ 
Email: doctorow@craphound.com 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow 

Call to Action Links:
website: www.walledculture.org
podcast: tbd