Satoru Iwata Quotes

I never download anything; it's crazy! We must keep buying albums and DVDs.

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.

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

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

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

In the world according to Apple, content is just a bunch of digital bits, easily copied, nothing special.

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.

The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

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

Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively.

Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

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.

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.

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.

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.

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.

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 battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.

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.

The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.

I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.