Attention — Sep 10, 2026

Interview with Taming the Net: “How to preserve the freedom of the internet without letting the internet destroy democracy.”

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:31

This interview between Yascha Mounk and Cory Doctorow examines whether the internet can preserve freedom while preventing democratic harm. Doctorow frames the debate around decentralization versus centralization of power: at its best, technology spreads authority, enables accountability, and helps people organize; at its worst, it is captured by corporations and governments to surveil, control, an…

Video and audio from my closing keynote at Friday’s Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:35

In this closing keynote at the Internet Archive’s Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain, Cory Doctorow argues that the return of works to the public domain after decades of copyright term extension is a victory against a broader pattern of legal and economic grifting. He distinguishes ordinary con artists from grifters, who use law, courts, legislatures, and paperwork to make theft appear legitima…

Interview on A World That Might Just Work with Terrence McNally

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:44

This interview between Terrence McNally and Cory Doctorow explores how technology, copyright law, politics, and science fiction shape contemporary struggles over power and freedom. McNally frames the conversation with current headlines about data privacy, surveillance, misinformation, gene editing, and climate change, suggesting these issues reveal a world in need of democratic repair. Doctorow re…

Video from the launch of the EFF/McSweeney’s “End of Trust” project launch with Cindy Cohn, Annalee Newitz, and me!

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:53

This transcript captures a panel discussion at the San Francisco launch of the EFF/McSweeney’s “End of Trust” project, featuring EFF executive director Cindy Cohn, writer Annalee Newitz, and Cory Doctorow. The speakers explore why legal strategy remains central to digital rights work, even though activism, technology, norms, and markets are also essential. Cohn explains that constitutional protect…

Christmas podcast with Poesy, 2018 edition

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:55

This video is the 2018 Christmas edition of Cory Doctorow’s podcast, presented as a special annual father-daughter episode with his daughter Poesy, who is described as ten and nearly eleven. The episode opens with a brief introduction and a musical segment in which Poesy and her father sing ‘Jingle Bells,’ ending with a playful ‘big finish jazz hands’ moment. Before the main educational segment, t…

Podcast: “Sole and Despotic Dominion” and “What is the Internet For?”

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:00

In this podcast, Cory Doctorow opens with travel updates and upcoming appearances, including events at the Internet Archive, San Diego State University Writers Conference, and book tour stops for Radicalized. He then reads two works. The first is his short story ‘Sole and Despotic Dominion,’ written for the 50th anniversary of Reason Magazine and presented as a chat transcript between a customer a…

Talking dystopia, utopia, science fiction and theories of change on the Netzpolitik podcast

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:15

In this Netzpolitik podcast interview, Cory Doctorow discusses his novel Walkaway, science fiction, utopianism, dystopianism, and theories of social change. He describes the book as an “optimistic disaster novel” set after climate collapse, extreme inequality, and mass unemployment. Rather than collapsing into violent chaos, displaced people form mutual-aid communities called the Walkaways, using…

Talking about the DMCA and 20 years of tech law malpractice on PRI’s Marketplace

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:16

This Marketplace Tech episode examines the 20-year legacy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a U.S. copyright law passed in 1998 to address online infringement as digital copying and file sharing became widespread. Host Molly Wood speaks with writer and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Cory Doctorow about how the law’s broad anti-circumvention provisions have produced unintende…

Talking about Ron Howard’s Haunted Mansion album with the Comedy on Vinyl podcast

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:25

In this episode of Comedy on Vinyl, host Jason Klamm welcomes author Cory Doctorow to discuss the Disneyland Little Long Playing Record The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion, a 1969 album featuring a young Ron Howard and Thurl Ravenscroft. The conversation uses the record as a springboard for a broader appreciation of the Haunted Mansion attraction, its design history, and its strange afterl…

Podcast: Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back.

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:28

Cory Doctorow opens with personal updates about a family health emergency, Burning Man, and his writing projects, including his collection Radicalized and upcoming lectures. He then reads his EFF DeepLinks postmortem on the European Parliament’s vote adopting the EU Copyright Directive, which he describes as a catastrophic loss for the internet. He explains that the Parliament adopted harmful prop…

Interview with EdSurge about educational technology, school surveillance, open access, and radical pedagogy

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:32

In this EdSurge On Air podcast interview, Tina Nazerian speaks with science fiction author, blogger, and activist Cory Doctorow about the future of educational technology, surveillance in schools, open access publishing, and self-directed learning. Doctorow argues that technology’s promise lies in individualized learning, but schools often respond to fear by imposing restrictive controls that norm…

Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:35

This podcast episode begins with Cory Doctorow’s personal update about a family trip to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo, upcoming appearances at San Diego Comic-Con, C-SPAN, Edinburgh Book Festival, Worldcon, and Burning Man, and a promotion for buying his DRM-free books directly from his online store. The main content is his reading of a Locus Magazine column titled “Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags,”…

Podcast: Let’s get better at demanding better from tech

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:39

In this podcast, Cory Doctorow opens with a vacation announcement and an urgent call for Europeans to oppose the EU Copyright Directive, especially Articles 11 and 13. He argues that Article 11 would make linking to news contingent on paid permission, allowing wealthy publishers and platforms to control access and criticism, while Article 13 would require online services to install automated copyr…

Podcast: Petard, Part 04 — CONCLUSION

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:43

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with an urgent appeal to European listeners about the EU copyright reform vote, warning that Articles 11 and 13 would impose unprecedented internet censorship by requiring licenses for linking to news articles and mandatory upload filters for user-generated content. Doctorow argues these rules would entrench large platforms, punish small publishers and…

Podcast: Petard, Part 03

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:50

This third episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with brief personal and professional updates: Doctorow thanks listeners who attended Phoenix Comics Fest, mourns the death of editor Gardner Dozois, lists upcoming appearances, mentions an interview with David Graeber, and promotes DRM-free editions of his novels. The main content is the third part of his reading of Petard, a story inspired by Aa…

Talking Walkaway, anarchism, social justice and revolution with The Final Straw Radio

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:07

In this interview on The Final Straw Radio, author and technologist Cory Doctorow discusses his novel Walkaway and its connections to radical politics, anarchism, social justice, and revolutionary strategy. Doctorow explains that he favors incremental, practical improvements over deterministic historical plans, comparing change to a hill-climbing algorithm: activists should build tools, institutio…

Talking the writers’ life with the Australia Broadcasting Company’s Green Room show

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:11

In this Green Room interview, Australian author Nick Earls speaks with Canadian science fiction writer Cory Doctorow about the practical realities and oddities of a writer’s life. Doctorow begins with a playful answer to Earls’s question about a brilliant story idea in a genre he would never write: a zombie uprising at Comic-Con, structured in three acts and using convention bottlenecks, cosplay c…

Podcast: Petard, Part 02

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:16

This podcast episode opens with Cory Doctorow welcoming listeners from his newly finished home recording studio in Burbank and noting that his move is complete. He promotes Tor Books’ May 22 reissue of his adult paperbacks with new matching covers, reminds listeners that his ebooks and audiobooks are available DRM-free from craphound.com/shop, and notes that buying directly supports him more than…

Announcing “Petard,” a new science fiction story reading on my podcast

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:20

The transcript opens with Cory Doctorow welcoming listeners from his new home office in Burbank and noting improvements to his podcast recording setup. He thanks audiences in Chapel Hill, lists upcoming appearances at MIT Sloan, ThoughtCon, Perimeter Institute, Phoenix Comic Fest, and other events, and announces new matching covers for his adult backlist. He then introduces a reading of Petard, a…

Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 08: the FINAL INSTALLMENT

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:28

This final episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast concludes his serialized reading of The Man Who Sold the Moon. Doctorow opens with personal and professional updates: he is moving from Burbank, taking a short break, finishing a new novella, completing the third Little Brother novel Crypto Wars, and promoting DRM-free sales of his fiction from his website. He also lists upcoming appearances, including…

Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 07

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:32

This podcast episode is part seven of Cory Doctorow’s audio reading of his novella The Man Who Sold the Moon. Doctorow begins with a personal update, noting that he is recording from a rental house in Burbank before moving into a newly purchased home, and lists upcoming appearances at events such as the LA Times Festival of Books, ThoughtCon, Perimeter Institute, Comic-Con events, the Interplaneta…

Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 06 [FIXED]

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:37

This episode opens with Cory Doctorow returning from an Australasian tour and listing upcoming appearances, then continues his serialized reading of The Man Who Sold the Moon. The narrator, Greg, reflects on Pug’s unexpectedly long survival after a cancer diagnosis, dismissing the doctor’s claim that purpose alone kept him alive. Despite opposition, the group’s Kickstarter for a small private luna…

Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 05 [FIXED]

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:43

This podcast installment is part five of Cory Doctorow’s reading of his novella The Man Who Sold the Moon. The narrator, Greg, describes how his friend Pug is diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a couple of months to live. Pug handles the news with dark humor and practicality, refusing futile treatment and deciding to use his remaining time to do something meaningful. Greg, Blight, and M…

The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 04 [FIXED]

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:50

This video is the fourth installment of Cory Doctorow’s audio reading of his novella The Man Who Sold the Moon. Before the reading, Doctorow notes that he is about to begin a book tour in Australia and New Zealand with his novel Walk Away and his daughter, lists several festival appearances, and mentions recent talks on scarcity and abundance. He also promotes his third Little Brother novel, Crypt…

Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 03

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:56

This third installment of Cory Doctorow’s podcast reading of his novella The Man Who Sold the Moon begins with brief announcements about upcoming appearances, the availability of his DRM-free audiobooks and ebooks, and a Hugo Award mention for Walk Away. The story then follows the narrator, Greg, at a desert Burning Man-like camp where he and his companions have deployed a self-calibrating 3D prin…