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

We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.

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

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

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.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.