I *heart* Cory Doctorow.

I *heart* Cory Doctorow. His article in today’s Guardian sticks the boot into recent proposals about copyright in the UK. What’s more, it does so simply, clearly, eloquently and intelligently.

Companies based on the outdated notion of inherent difficulty of copying must change or they will die. Because copying isn't hard. Copying isn't going to get harder. This moment, right now, 2009, this is as hard as copying will be for the rest of recorded history. Next year, copying will be easier. And the year after that. And the year after that.

Read more here. Especially if your name in Mandelson