Shawn Fanning Quotes

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

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

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.

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.

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.

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

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 was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

The thing that concerns me most is that, in the digital age, if we fail to make efforts to maintain the value of our content, there is the high possibility for the value to be greatly reduced, as the history of the music industry has shown.

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

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

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

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

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.

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 never download anything; it's crazy! We must keep buying albums and DVDs.

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.