Jonathan Zittrain Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.”

“Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.”

“Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.”

“Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.”

“Attacks on Internet sites and infrastructure, and the compromise of secure information, pose a particularly tricky problem because it is usually impossible to trace an attack back to its instigator.”

“Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.”

“Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.”

“How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.”

“Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.”

“One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly.”