When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.

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.

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

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

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.

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