“I think that any new technology that benefits society as a whole benefits the criminal element of that society…. [A]utomobiles cause a lot of crime.”
Jim Bidzos, vice chairman of Security Dynamics, arguing that an encrypted society is a polite society, ZDNN, 30 June 1999
“People have intellectual property on their sites, and they think our intention is to take that and use it for some other purpose rather than serving up Web pages and seling advertising.”
Yahoo production chief Tim Brady, on recent clarifications to Yahoo’s terms of service that disclaim any ownership of user-created homepages — just the right to republish, distribute, and modify them in just about any media Yahoo chooses, without permission or payment, The New York Times, 1 July 1999
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