"So what did Ofcom do? Naturally, it listened to the public, ignored the uncompetitive rent-seeking proposals from the commercial sector, adhered to EU law, and rejected the proposal. Well, that's what they did in a parallel universe. In this universe, Ofcom accepted the self-serving arguments of the companies they're meant to be regulating, ignored the public whose interests they were meant to be safeguarding, and gave the BBC what it asked for. Why did it do this? It's a secret. But not any more."

"You, sir, are a visionary. What better way to protect our children against the auditory abomination that is today's pop artists? I feel that DRM is a wonderful thing, we simply haven't been using it correctly and to it's full potential."

"It's been eight years since Sean Fanning created Napster in his college dorm room. Eight years later, there isn't a single authorized music service that can compete with the original Napster. Record sales are down every year, and digital music sales aren

"You cannot hope to prevent users from exercising their fair-use rights. It is impossible to make unbreakable encryption; every key will be broken. The stronger the keys are, the stronger the determination of those who want to break them, JUST BECAUSE THE

"The BBC is being threatened with an anti-trust challenge in Europe over its use of the Windows Media format in its on demand service, iPlayer, which is in the final stages of testing."

"Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey."

"What the entertainment industry is trying to do is to use technology to contradict that natural law. They want a practical way to make copying hard enough to save their existing business. But they are doomed to fail."

"Record companies have stopped protecting audio CD's with DRM, which makes copying music a lot easier."

"Don't worry, he's running a Linux file server on it."

"After the HD-DVD crack, I realized that things where "unbalanced" by having just one format cracked, so I did Blu-Ray too."

CORY DOCTOROW: Let me ask you this: does this phone play quadraphonic Ogg Vorbis music format? Or FLAC encoded video? What about the Bittorrent client on this phone, is it GPL’d?