Edward Felten Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

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.