Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

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. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

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.

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.