Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Artist Rights

_Frankly, the only way to police the net for infringement is to throttle it. And thats exactly what the proactive policing that many artists are calling for would do. [...]
Not only is this the height of arrogance ” “Shut up about your life and everything important to you so that I can Make Art” ” its also major bad news for artists._

Cory is on fine form explaining the paradoxes of being seduced by snake-oil promises of “protection” in this article for SF Writers’ magazine Locus.