Money Corrupts The Process Of Reasoning.

If Zero Percent Of The Elites Support Something, Very Low Chance It's Going To Pass, If 100% Support Something, Very High Chance It's Going To Pass. Same Thing For Organized Interest Groups. But For The Average Voter, It's A Flat Line. Which Says It Doesn't Matter Whether Zero Percent Of The Public Believes Something Or 100% Of The Average Voters Believe Something - It Doesn't Affect The Probability That That Thing Will Be Enacted.

A Free Culture Is Not A Culture Without Property; It Is Not A Culture In Which Artists Don't Get Paid. A Culture Without Property, Or In Which Creators Can't Get Paid, Is Anarchy, Not Freedom. Anarchy Is Not What I Advance Here. Instead, The Free Culture That I Defend In This Book Is A Balance Between Anarchy And Control.

There Is A Regulation Of Behavior On The Internet And In Cyberspace, But That Regulation Is Imposed Primarily Through Code. The Differences In The Regulations Effected Through Code Distinguish Different Parts Of The Internet And Cyberspace. In Some Places, Life Is Fairly Free; In Other Places, It Is More Controlled. And The Difference Between These Spaces Is Simply A Difference In The Architectures Of Control--that Is, A Difference In Code.

We Live In A World With "free" Content, And This Freedom Is Not An Imperfection. We Listen To The Radio Without Paying For The Songs We Hear; We Hear Friends Humming Tunes That They Have Not Licensed. We Tell Jokes That Reference Movie Plots Without The Permission Of The Directors. We Read Our Children Books, Borrowed From A Library, Without Paying The Original Copyright Holder For The Performance Rights.

[congress] And Their Cronies Secure More Than One Hundred Billion Dollars In Corporate Welfare