Michael Moore Quotes

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

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.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

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

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.

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

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

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

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

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.

One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.

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.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

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

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.

But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

I'm against people downloading music.

I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry - that gave us Spotify.

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.