38 Quotes by Edward Felten

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

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.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

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.

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

If they are buying into this technology, they have a right to know if it actually works,

It is not legitimate to undermine the user's desire to secure their own computer. I don't think they should be hiding files and programs and registry entries from the system administrator, ever.