Day: March 26, 2004

“Some unscrupulous corporations may have exploited new technologies … so that ordinary consumers and children become, in effect, ‘human shields’ against copyright owners and law enforcement agencies.”

Senator Orrin Hatch (D.-RIAA), on the amusing conspiracy theories he’s come up with to justify outlawing peer-to-peer networks, Senate.gov, 25 March 2004

“I want to make sure (a user) can’t get through … an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.”

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on his media strategy of saturation-bombing Internet users into submission, InformationWeek, 25 March 2004