Brendon Urie Quotes

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

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.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

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

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 think music sharing of any kind is great.

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

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.

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'm against people downloading music.

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

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.

Until the governments don't have a clear law against piracy and the digital downloads are not working worldwide properly, the record industry will keep on suffering.

The thing that sucks the most about it is that everybody steals music. You spend thousands and thousands of dollars to make a record and all of these scumbags are just stealing it.

With piracy, people think it's about getting stuff for free. It's not - it's about getting rid of the middleman that stands between you and your enjoyment of the film or music.

I think eventually all music will be free.

I think piracy itself is going to end up going away.

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

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.

I download music everyday, I know music is free and so does everybody else you know.

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

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.