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Andrew Orlowski alert!

• deleted 14y ago
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• chris_wot 14y ago
  Someone aught to tell Cory Doctorow. I know how impressed he was with Orlowski... http://boingboing.net/2006/01/11/correcting-the-recor.html http://boingboing.net/2006/01/11/correcting-the-recor.html
• ZeroGravitas 14y ago
  Does anyone know why he's got such a bee in his bonnet about anything that works against the continued expansion of copyright? I realise he's a journalist and so sells the copyright to his own work, but he's so aggressive about it I always assume there's something else going on, like some weird religious or political affiliation? Anyone?
  • justsee 14y ago
    He seems close to Dominic Young, previously News International’s director of strategy and product development, who now runs http://copyrightblog.co.uk/ http://copyrightblog.co.uk/ (intellectual platform or industry mouthpiece - you decide). Dominic was a source for his piece railing against the "Don't break the internet" slogan [1]. I wouldn't really consider any of these Orlowski pieces journalism. He's clearly very close to certain industries (Content and Nuclear for instance) and seems to just write hit pieces for the industries he favours, relying on some intellectual sleight-of-hand and snark to woo readers to an industry point of view. I suppose The Register is a channel to a particular educated, technical demographic and Orlowski uses his influece to try to shape the opinions of that demographic. I've no idea whether he gets paid via other channels for his strident advocacy, and would actually prefer that it was a situation where Hanlon's razor is in play, because most of what he writes is ridiculous. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/09/breaking_the_internet_no_property_no_privacy/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/09/breaking_the_interne...