Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here are your hosts. John Joseph Adams and David Barr

Kirtley.

Hi this is Dave and And this is John.

And welcome to episode 73 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Corey Doctorow.

He serves as the co-editor of Boing Boing Boing, one of the internet's most popular blogs,

and is a prominent activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws.

His novels include Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother, and For the Win.

His latest novel Pirate Cinema is about a group of tech-saffy young runaways who attempt to take

on the entertainment industry.

Then stick around after the interview as we discuss Sex and Science Fiction with guest geek Laura G Duncan.

All right, so let's get to our interview.

All right, so we're here with Corey Doctoral. Welcome to the show.

Thank you very much. Okay, so first of all, everyone just wants us to ask you what you think of Disney acquiring

Lucasfilm?

I'm kind of bummed about it.

It just seems to me that we've entered this kind of winner-take-all world where things that are a little bit successful, become very successful, and then become mega successes, and then become mega successes, and then merge with all the other mega successes.

I don't know, it feels like the finance industry or something to me and it seems like it's somehow intimately related to it.

This seems like a finance-driven decision

rather than an artistic-driven decision

or a creative decision.

One of the things that freaks me out

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