The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

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

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.

Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.