Shane Dawson Quotes

Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.

Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.

YouTube is committed to balancing the needs of the fan community with those of copyright holders.

As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.

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.

If you really care about content, you should pay for it.

If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

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

I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free.

As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.

Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

YouTube is growing up, is basically my view of it. Growing up means our creators are growing up; they're getting more well known. We're providing programs for them to generate more revenue so they can generate even better, high-quality shows, and then also connecting them with the advertisers.

The best thing about a platform like YouTube is that it helps musicians all around the world to reach such a vast audience.

Everyone is hungry for content and you are content creators and if you are not negotiating a good price no Robinhood is coming to save you.

When I saw that Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, I was dumbfounded! Why would Google get into bed with thieves? They've built a huge audience on the backs of copyright holders - and then they say I have to monitor them?

I used to put like, 'Yo Gotti type beats,' 'Future type beats' on YouTube. And uhh, I started getting paid off YouTube. Like YouTube started giving me Google AdSense checks.

Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.

When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.

The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companies for staff and technologies dedicated to monitoring users and censoring any infringing material from being posted or transmitted.

I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underestimate how they monetize content, they're sorely mistaken.

People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.