Kim Dotcom Quotes

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

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

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.

I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

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.

Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry.

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

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.

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.

The U.S. government is saying that my website enabled piracy when the entire Internet is enabling piracy. Every ISP that connects people to the Internet is enabling piracy - Google is, YouTube is, everybody is.