Cindy Cohn Quotations

We are pretty happy with the tenor of the questions asked.

We want them to pledge not to take action against the paper and all future papers as well, ... It's not appropriate for scientists to have to ask the industry for permission to present research.

Music fans shouldn't have to install potentially dangerous, privacy intrusive software on their computers just to listen to the music they've legitimately purchased.

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.

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

I think they need to abandon this plan. The ISPs' view that they can auction off preferred access to my e-mail box is really wrong.... It's not the ISPs' to sell.

We hope this settlement will make a lot of content holders, especially record companies, think twice about going down a similar road. Technology that is effective at stopping copying will always run the risk of exposing computers to hackers.

The proposed settlement will provide significant benefits for consumers who bought the flawed CDs. Under the terms, those consumers will get what they thought they were buying -- music that will play on their computers without restriction or security risk.

We think this information should be public. But we thought the appropriate thing to do was to present the issue to the judge and let the judge make the call.

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

This isn't really an anti-spam measure as much as a 'pay to speak' e-mail measure.

This appears to be a situation where the technology is overtaking the regulatory structure in ways that were not anticipated by the people who wrote the regulations.

It makes sense for all of these companies to sit down and think about this they have not given it sufficient thought until now. It's unfortunate that some horrible things had to happen for them to think about it.

It's going to be not only right and left, but up, down, every way you go.

The big nonprofits are getting the attention here, but this isn't really just for them. What about the little guys that are just starting and may not be reaching an audience who wants to hear what they have to say? These are the groups that will lose.

They attempt to create specific upper limits on how much encryption you can have, in this case how many channels you can have.

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

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