Kim Dotcom Quotes

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

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.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.

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.

If SOPA were to pass, Imgur would not be able to exist. We survive on user-generated content. It would be impossible for us to police the amount of traffic we get for what is or isn't copyrighted material. It's just not possible.

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.

New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.

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

Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

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

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

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

Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left.

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

Money spent by Hollywood to fight piracy: hundreds of millions of dollars.

For every IP block, DRM, and who-knows-what security feature Hollywood spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on, some piracy kid will undo it for free and within a couple of minutes.

I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm a fan of downloading, both legal and illegal, and the open-source ethos that it harbours for the future is a good one.

I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.