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.

Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.

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

Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.