Cory Doctorow is a bestselling author of both science fiction and
techno-sociological nonfiction, one of four editors of longtime popular
weblog boingboing,
and an activist and advocate for intellectual property rights, working
extensively with the Electronic Freedom Foundation and others to put
control of content back in the hands of the users like you and me.
Photo credit: Jonathan Worth 2013
Today,
we talk about the EFF's plan to defeat Digital Rights Management (DRM)
as a business model of rent-seeking corporations. DRM is the set of
digital locks on the content you buy--everything from eBooks to your
car's computer have DRM embedded--and while it isn't impossible to
break, it is highly illegal for you (or anyone) to do so. That means you
don't have control of things that you bought. It also means that
security flaws cannot always be researched or revealed. That's a big
problem.
We also talk about how he became a
writer and how he gets his writing done despite a punishing travel and
speaking schedule. Spoiler: 250 words a day, every day will result in a
finished product very quickly. That's one page per day. You can do that,
can't you?
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