This appears to be a situation where the technology is overtaking the regulatory structure in ways that were not anticipated by the people who wrote the regulations. |
This isn't really an anti-spam measure as much as a 'pay to speak' e-mail measure. |
We are pretty happy with the tenor of the questions asked. |
We have been putting together a rather large coalition of groups from across the spectrum. They are mainly nonprofit or political groups or small business concerns.... They're all people who can't afford to pay to get their message across. |
We hope this settlement will make a lot of content holders, especially record companies, think twice about going down a similar road. Technology that is effective at stopping copying will always run the risk of exposing computers to hackers. |
We think it's a good settlement for people who bought the discs. |
We think this information should be public. But we thought the appropriate thing to do was to present the issue to the judge and let the judge make the call. |
We want them to pledge not to take action against the paper and all future papers as well, ... It's not appropriate for scientists to have to ask the industry for permission to present research. |