“We want them to pledge not to take action against the paper and all future papers as well, ... It's not appropriate for scientists to have to ask the industry for permission to present research.”
“Music fans shouldn't have to install potentially dangerous, privacy intrusive software on their computers just to listen to the music they've legitimately purchased.”
“The proposed settlement will provide significant benefits for consumers who bought the flawed CDs. Under the terms, those consumers will get what they thought they were buying -- music that will play on their computers without restriction or security risk.”
“We hope this settlement will make a lot of content holders, especially record companies, think twice about going down a similar road. Technology that is effective at stopping copying will always run the risk of exposing computers to hackers.”
“[The Electronic Frontier Foundation said it tried to persuade Sony to take the offending software off the discs.] We negotiated with them, ... and they agreed to do a lot of things. But they left undone a lot of things they said they wouldn't do.”
