A lot of provisions in this law have the potential to chill uses of information, especially among competitors.

Things are too fluid to be creating restrictive laws. We talk about scalable servers and scalable sites. That’s what should be going on in the legislative process rather than these omnibus, let’s-do-it-all-in-one-fell-swoop pieces of legislation.

Maryland is the first state that seems to be going section-by-section through the bill, because so much opposition to this has come out of the woodwork that they are very concerned.

If I go out and create a database of recipes on cakes, I do not own the rights to the use of flour, milk, and eggs.

Everyone wants a free market until it’s their market that has intense competition. Then they want protection.

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You’ve got an industry that has set itself up successfully. Then, all of a sudden, the technology has come along and scrambled the pipeline. They feel very uncomfortable in this shifting environment.

The only way a vendor can find out that you are violating the terms of their license agreement is by monitoring your use. It [seems like] Big Brother.

Bills like H.R. 354 are designed to slow everything down so that big companies can get a better hold and understand what’s going on before the competition outstrips them.