Dan Farmer Quotes

I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

I'm against people downloading music.

I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

Downloading songs is not good.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.

I went to college during the Kazaa/Napster era, and we had free Internet, which was a huge deal. People were just downloading all of everything.

I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.