Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing and of various science fiction and non-fiction books) rails against current copyright law in this new interview in 10 Zen Monkeys with RU Sirius. (”America became an industrial power by being a pirate nation.”) He decries the “information feudalism” foisted on developing countries, and notes the irony of requiring formerly-Communist Russia to now again procure licenses for all their (digital) presses.

[Thank you David Cassel for submitting !]

Cory also describes various takes on digital copyright — sometimes demonstrating them with his allegorical science fiction stories, but often rooting them in great real-world examples. (His grandmother’s memories of the Siege of Leningrad in World War II inspired a story of a pirate nation attacked for ignoring copyright law.)

He also talks about the origins of the internet, the 200,000-year-old axe he bought in New York, competing theories about the future and his visit to NORAD Headquarters at Cheyenne Mountain. (Which had a half court and a snack bar!)