“If the Internet is going to be a pillar of 21st-century society,” says Rick Cotton, executive vice president and general counsel of NBC Universal and chairman of the Chamber of Commerce’s Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy, “it can’t be a land without law. When one talks about freedom, one has to ask: ‘Is lawless activity the same as freedom?’ We’ve answered that question in the real world. I’m not free in the real world to reach across the table and punch you in the nose. Is there a right to operate unfettered a website regardless of whether it’s lawless or not? Ultimately, I think there’s only one answer to that question.”
Much more:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/11/megaupload-cyberlocker-copyright/
