We think it's a good settlement for people who bought the discs.

I think that's creepy, and most people think that's creepy, and it's not disclosed.

[The Electronic Frontier Foundation said it tried to persuade Sony to take the offending software off the discs.] We negotiated with them, ... and they agreed to do a lot of things. But they left undone a lot of things they said they wouldn't do.

If AOL or another ISP decides that someone's a spammer, then no e-mail from that individual gets through. But there's a fundamental difficulty at the heart of the spam debate: The only one who knows what you want delivered in your inbox is you.

The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science,

Chevron used the Nigerian military as their security force and that resulted in gross human rights violations.