22 Quotes by Jason Schultz

This ruling threatens competition to offer new services, new features,

This ruling is bad for gamers, but it could also be terrible for the software industry, ... It essentially shuts down any competitor's add-on innovation that customers could enjoy with their legitimately purchased products. Add-on innovation is one of the hottest areas of creativity and economic growth right now in software, and this decision will slow investment and development in that field.

To some extent, it also 'phones home' to Sony over the Internet and uploads some of this information about your activity to them, ... potentially even identifying information such as your name, e-mail address and location on the Internet.

Entertainment companies often complain that fans refuse to respect their intellectual property rights. Yet tools like this refuse to respect our own personal property rights, ... Sony's tactics here are hypocritical, in addition to being a security threat.

These companies don't know what's going to be valuable, what will be the next big thing, so they try to patent absolutely everything.

The simplest thing to say is that this person is not a lawyer and appears to have no legal training,

People paid Sony for music, not an invasion of their computers. Sony must right the wrong it has committed. Recalling the CD's is a beginning step in the process, but there is a whole lot more mess to clean up.

You need incentives for people to innovate in technology. You've never needed that in businesses because if a business is successful you make money. It's its own incentive.

A lot of patents back in the late 1990s and early 2000s were made when the patent office was still trying to figure out what to do.