The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

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

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.

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

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

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