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.

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

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

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.