Kurt Opsahl Quotations

What they have done so far is a start, but it does not resolve all issues. Sony has fixed the immediate security flaw but there are other flaws. It is critical for Sony to do a robust notice campaign to make people aware of this.

Sony agreed to stop production of these flawed and ineffective digital rights management technologies. We hope that other record labels will learn from Sony's hard experience and focus more on the carrot of quality music and less on the stick of copy protection.

That was a big win for free speech.

We're asking that the system allow people to surf and to post and read things anonymously. Because the system requires people to sign on, it creates the opportunity for persistent tracking.

This is not a surprising result. It brings into question whether this is really the best use of the state's resources to constantly put up these clearly unconstitutional laws, only to have them challenged and thrown out. It does seem to be one in this series of law passes, gets challenged, gets struck down. Rinse, lather, repeat.

There's something disturbing about the notion that when you search for something the government is going to be looking over your shoulder.

We can't say that the software is now secure. We're going to continue to raise these issues with Sony.

Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas.

It appears that the judge is going to try to split the baby.

They have listened to us but there's a lot of resistance.