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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.

The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

We protect monopolies with copyright.