But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.