By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026People who wanted to improve and then supplant the state-of-the-art were able to cheaply enter and capture the market, only to be taken down by the next generation of disenshittifiers when they, too, inevitably yielded to the temptation to replace innovation with extraction. 16/ 2210
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026Every pirate wants to be an admiral - but every admiral must then confront the pirates who rush in to fill the vacuum they create when they switch sides. But that system of beneficial disruption was itself disrupted - not by technology, but by policy. 17/ 1160
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026In 1998, Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). DMCA Section 1201 makes it a felony to practice adversarial interoperability, establishing penalties of $500k and five years in prison for people who reverse engineer and modify products: pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/s... 18/pluralistic.netPluralistic: It’s not normal (14 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1206