18 Quotes by Cindy Cohn

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.