In These Times, The Hardest Task For

It Might Be Crazy To Expect A High Government Official To Speak The Truth. It Might Be Crazy To Believe That Government Policy Will Be Something More Than The Handmaiden Of The Most Powerful Interests. It Might Be Crazy To Argue That We Should Preserve A Tradition That Has Been Part Of Our Tradition For Most Of Our History -- Free Culture. If This Is Crazy, Then Let There Be More Crazies. Soon.

Why Should It Be That Just When Technology Is Most Encouraging Of Creativity, The Law Should Be Most Restrictive?

While The Creative Works From The 16th Century Can Still Be Accessed And Used By Others, The Data In Some Software Programs From The 1990s Is Already Inaccessible. Once A Company That Produces A Certain Product Goes Out Of Business, It Has No Simple Way To Uncover How Its Product Encoded Data. The Code Is Thus Lost, And The Software Is Inaccessible. Knowledge Has Been Destroyed.

Technology Means You Can Now Do Amazing Things Easily; But You Couldn't Easily Do Them Legally.

A Culture Without Property, Or In Which Creators Can't Get Paid, Is Anarchy, Not Freedom.