The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.