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Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.
Edward Felten / Professor
Manage
Needs
Operators
Reasonable
Leeway
Network
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The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.
Edward Felten / Professor
Internet
Openness
Secret
Services
The Secret Of
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I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.
Edward Felten / Professor
Compact
Problem
Protection
Thinking
Copy
Disc
Resolved
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Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.
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Choices
Dancing
Pigs
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Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
Edward Felten / Professor
Different Things
Innovation
People
Trying
People Doing Trying
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Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.
Edward Felten / Professor
Atmosphere
Growth
Healthy
Particular
Path
Choose
Competitive
Forward
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The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.
Edward Felten / Professor
Casts
Problem
Want
Wide
Cast
Catch
Inevitably
Net
Something
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The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.
Edward Felten / Professor
Government
Giving
Want
Neutral
Result
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And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.
Edward Felten / Professor
Comfort
Higher
Inference
Levels
Worry
Deciding
Gathered
Provide
User
Worrying
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It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.
Edward Felten / Professor
Drm
Giving
Pirate
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Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.
Edward Felten / Professor
Legal
Copyright
Enforcement
Expanding
Important
Moving
Thinking
Vigorous
Picture
Actual
Definition
Important Part
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Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
Edward Felten / Professor
Copying
Given
Pay
Use
Willing
Minimize
Prevent
Question
System
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Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.
Edward Felten / Professor
Advent
Copying
Cost
Digital
Distribution
Illegal
Music Industry
Pressure
Stress
Puts
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The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.
Edward Felten / Professor
Dream
Bargaining
Founders
Google
Innovators
Internet
Labs
Needs
Neutrality
Big Thing
Classrooms
Dreaming
Generation
Hoping
Table
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In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.
Edward Felten / Professor
Technology
Collision
Copyright
Creativity
Decision
Discouraged
Making Decisions
Policy
Decisions
Designed
Encouraged
Happening
Ip
Protecting
Technologies
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We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.
Edward Felten / Professor
Conversation
Discussion
Not Good Enough
Situation
Solutions
Three
Two
One Or Two
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