The Internet we're come to know and love is at risk.

The future of the free, open and innovative Internet we have all enjoyed through the years is not guaranteed. If the bill before the House Commerce Committee gives control of the Internet to the telephone and cable companies, the Internet we have come to appreciate could well cease to exist, and it will be almost impossible to get it back.

You would be hard pressed to read this case to say that innovators will have to design their tech differently. I think the court was pretty clear in stating that the technological design is not a factor in determining inducement.

This is a heck of a lot better than just going out and suing the daylights out of people. My concern is that people may give up rights they may have, such as the right to limited sharing.

It's not a recipe for piracy. It's a recipe for competition, which is what Apple really doesn't like.

It is vitally important that the Internet remains open and accessible to consumers and to service providers and remains the source of innovation it has been over the past two decades.

They're just two different visions of the Internet. I see the Internet as something that gives people the power, for the first time ever, to have a megaphone. These guys want to make a closed system.

This merger makes a net neutrality requirement all the more urgent.

Think of the cable system. You as a consumer have no control over what channels the cable operator picks. They pick certain channels based on where they have a financial interest. Time Warner favors the programming in which it has financial interest. We're concerned that the cable model will essentially be grafted onto the InterNet.

This bill needs significant improvement before it will preserve the open Internet that consumers and service providers expect and deserve.