Cory Doctorow On For the Win, Gold Farming, and DRM

adaviel passes along a New Scientist interview with Cory Doctorow, who has been touring for his new book For the Win. The SF author and technology activist talks about DRM, gold farming, and much else besides.

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Re:Delete this article.

[Hadlock]

Regarding my downmod "-1, Troll" -- I'm not trolling, BoingBoing has a really terrible, sensationalist slant on all of their DRM stories. What used to be an interesting blog "a collection of wonderful things" has turned into Doctorow's personal platform for pushing his own personal DRM agenda in an attempt to gain notoriety to sell more books. Many of their articles are reactionary, sensationalist garbage you would expect to see in a supermarket tabloid, tailored to suit their slightly above average readership. There's no reason to plug him or his site. Him and his site should be buried under a heap of bad reviews, not promoted. What's worse is that they're occasionally featured on google news' "fast flip" feature, giving their sensationalist headlines and "analysis" added weight, when they lack any sort of editorial review beyond Doctorow's lazy "delete" button. Internet journalism has been going downhill and someone has to stand up and point out the merely mediocre from the bad and biased. If you don't agree with my opinion, fine, move on and keep reading but don't label me a troll.