Quotes by Edward Felten

Edward Felten

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they’ve gathered.

Comfort

Levels

Worry

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

Digital

Pressure

Stress

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

Choices

Dancing

Pigs

Given that you’ll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they’ll be willing to pay for it?

Copying

Pay

Use

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

Atmosphere

Growth

Healthy

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can’t be resolved.

Problem

Protection

Thinking

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

Creativity

Decision

Technology

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

Innovation

People

Trying

It’s abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.

Drm

Giving

Pirate

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

Needs

Operators

Reasonable

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Atmosphere

Casts

Choices

Comfort

Copying

Creativity

Dancing

Decision

Digital

Dream

Drm

Giving

Google

Government

Growth

Healthy

Important

Innovation

Internet

Levels

Moving

Needs

Not Good Enough

Openness

Operators

Pay

People

Pigs

Pirate

Pressure

Problem

Protection

Reasonable

Secret

Stress

Technology

Thinking

Three

Trying

Two

Use

Want

Worry

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Quotes by Edward Felten

Edward Felten

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they’ve gathered.

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

Given that you’ll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they’ll be willing to pay for it?

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can’t be resolved.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

It’s abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

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