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Cory Doctorow

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2023-01-10

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1. “In years or so, yeah, I was going to start with a list of questions about Chokepoint capitalism and the creator economy, but actually Amazon did a great favor this week by lowering rates for creators on Twitch in a way that I think just sort of fundamentally explains the thesis of your book. So why don't we walk through that? Sure. So you've all heard of Amazon. You presumably all heard of Twitch. Amazon bought Twitch in 2014. And for an important piece of context, this phenomenon of very large firms buying out parts of their supply chain, it's pretty new until the Reagan years. It was generally considered illegal for very large firms to buy out their supply chain. That wasn't how companies grew. So this kind of thing that we have now where you have a company like Google that's made one and a half successful products in-house, they did a search engine and a hotmail clone. And then everything else they did failed and then everything they've done that's successful they bought from someone else.”

   2023-01-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Rebecca, the author of three books, but this is the first one anyone might actually read. I'm a law professor. I obsess over artists' rights and access to knowledge and culture and just do all kinds of things to try and generate evidence to figure out what's really going on and how we can do a better job of achieving both of those things. Most recently I started a little publishing house where we published 160 books in order to create a new way for out-of-print authors to get paid, but also to find out what kind of culture we're losing through that. I've known Corey for we were just figuring it out like about 10”

   2023-01-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Hello, everybody. I am not Cory Doctor Rebecca Giblin. I'm Neil Patel, I'm the editor of the Verge. I used to love the people who have asked me to help talk about the book today. But introduce yourselves, Corey, and Rebecca. Sure. I'm Corey Doctorow, and I'm one of the authors of this book, along with Rebecca. I write lots of different things. I'm the author of more than 20 books, science fiction for adults, for young adults, for middle grades readers, graphic novels, short story collections, nonfiction. I'm also a special advisor to the electronic frontier foundation, and I have some academic affiliations in computer science and library science.”

   2023-01-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT