I Don't Support Direct Democracy Because I

A World Where Congressmen Spend 30 To 70 Percent Of Their Time Raising Money From A Tiny, Tiny Fraction Of The 1% Is A World Where That Tiny, Tiny Fraction Has Enormous Power. And It's That Inequality In Political Power That Enables This Corrupted System To Happen.

But It Is As Silly To Think About Peer-to-peer As Applying Just To Music As It Would Have Been To Think About The Internet As Applying Just To Pornography. Whatever The Initial Use Of The Technology, It Has Nothing To Do With The Potential Of The Architecture To Serve Many Other Extremely Important Functions.

There Are A Lot Of People Who Say We Need To Cut The Amount Of Money That's Spent In Politics. I'm Not Sure That I Agree. But I Am Sure That If You Were Talking About Cutting The Amount Of Money Spent In Politics, The Media Would Have A Strong Interest In Opposing You, Because They Make An Enormous Amount Of Money From Political Advertisements.

Copyright Law Has Got To Give Up Its Obsession With 'the Copy.' The Law Should Not Regulate 'copies' Or 'modern Reproductions' On Their Own. It Should Instead Regulate Uses--like Public Distributions Of Copies Of Copyrighted Work--that Connect Directly To The Economic Incentive Copyright Law Was Intended To Foster.

You And I Both Know That As Long As Our Representatives Are Held Hostage To Their Funders - And Their Funders Are Not All Of Us - Our System Will Not Work