Wil Wheaton Quotes

Pirate Party

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.

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.

SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.

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

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.

The criminalization of file sharing is pathetic. It's so pathetic, it's almost funny. Imagine if the radio people would have lobbied for a federal law enforcement agency to raid all homes for illegal transmissions of moving picture experiments in order to stop the invention of television. It's ludicrous.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

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 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.

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

I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.

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.

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

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

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.

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.

On scores of sites, users can upload illegal files of my books. As per 1998's toothless Digital Millennium Copyright Act, I bear the burden of discovering and reporting each theft.

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

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.