But you technical people have a disease: it’s called ‘solutionism.’ You see every challenge as a problem and every problem as having a solution and e… - Cory Doctorow

Greg, what are you talking about? Ending corruption? Like there’s a version of this society that isn’t corrupt? Corruption isn’t the exception, it’s the norm. It’s baked in. The whole idea of using markets to figure out who gets what is predicated on corruption—it’s a way to paper over the fact that some people get a lot, most of us get not much, and so we invent a deus ex machina called market forces that hands out money based on merit. How do we know that the market is giving it to deserving people? Well, look at all the money they have! It’s just circular reasoning.

The law didn’t care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal.

For me — for pretty much every writer — the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.