(With the DMCA) you have the sword of Damocles, |
[Intellectual-property lawyers admit there is a lot of room for interpretation.] Fair use is very murky here, ... We really don't have firm guidance from prior cases. |
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do. |
Congress was willing to set guard dogs -- paid by the government -- around anything that private industry could come up with to protect works even if those protections were excessive. |
Domain names themselves hardly matter anymore. We get to where we are going with search engines anyway. It's a largely symbolic battle. |
I think this is a very ripe time to take on some of the hardest questions. It's not a crazy position to say that these companies should not be there at all - but that's not my view, and I think there are ways to begin drawing lines so that there are ways that the companies can make the world better by being there. |
It's a political battle where, I think it was Henry Kissinger who once said, 'the fighting is so fierce, precisely because the stakes are so small', |
Online auction sites have been a fairly active area of dispute, ... is still unclear. |
So there's one set of countries, anchored by Iran, Cuba and China, that would like to see some process by which governments of the world have a much larger hand in controlling the shape of the internet. |
The law basically says that if you crack a system meant to protect a copyright work, you go to jail; if you produce software for the purpose of cracking anti-circumvention measures, you go to jail. |
The other issue it raises is the kind of speech we'll hear. The strongest speech people see when they're voting is the speech when they're going to the ballot. |
The power and promise of the Internet is that anyone can write and distribute code for tens of millions of others to adopt and run. The downside of this is that bad code can too readily get onto the public's PCs. Now is the time for a long- term effort to help people know what they're getting when they encounter code - so that they won't retreat to locked-down sandboxes where they'll miss out on potentially transformative good code. |
The power and promise of the Internet is that anyone can write and distribute code for tens of millions of others to adopt and run. The downside of this is that bad code can too readily get onto the public's PCs. Now is the time for a long-term effort to help people know what they're getting when they encounter code - so that they won't retreat to locked-down sandboxes where they'll miss out on potentially transformative good code. |
The realization that every digital movement is recorded and monitored itself will chill private behavior. |
The rest of the world doesn't want to see US hegemony here, in large part just for symbolic reasons, |