John Darnielle Quotes

The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.

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

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.

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.

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.

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.

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'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 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 used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

Music is now becoming 'free,' and it's very difficult for new artists to start.

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

I think eventually all music will be free.

I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

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

My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

I don't think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading; I think the real enemy of the music industry is radio.

The Internet is the wrong direction for music.