Cory Doctorow: "Conversation, not content, is king"

Cory Doctorow skriver om internett som en disruptiv teknologi for åndsverkbransjen i Locus Magazine, 5. jul. 2006: Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet, (via Boing Boing).

Technology giveth and technology taketh away. As bands on MySpace — who can fill houses and sell hundreds of thousands of discs without a record deal, by connecting individually with fans — have shown, there's a new market aborning on the Internet for music, one with fewer gatekeepers to creativity than ever before.