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Freedom is about stopping the past.
Money corrupts the process of reasoning.
I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.
The popular choice is not elected as president.
Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.
Everybody's vote should count equally in the United States.
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.
Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.
There's no reason for the electors to overrule the popular choice.
Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.
There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.
Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.
Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.
"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare
Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.
Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.
The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.
I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
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.
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
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."
Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.
If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.
When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
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
For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.
I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.