Steve Jobs Quotes

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

The first thing I ever sold online was stolen.

Identity theft has become an international business.

Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.

Hijacking other's meetings or classrooms - this is online crime.

There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.

It's clear why hacking communities are [growing]. Because it's like, there's a lot more gold there. There's a lot more to steal than ever before.

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

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.

I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

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.

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

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.

Megaupload was a dual-use technology. You can use it for good things, and you can use it for bad things. If someone sends something illegal in an envelope through your postal service, you don't shut down the post office. If someone speeds with the car he just bought, you don't go to the car manufacturer and say, 'Hey, we're shutting you down.'

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

Cyberspace

The Senate trying to govern cyberspace is analogous to King George believing he could still govern the colonies even though he had never been there.

The information superhighway should not look like a red light district.

The Internet is unpoliceable essentially.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen — the Internet — has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

network neutrality

Interconnectivity on the Internet with all people means interconnectivity with the evil people

Deterrence is … a weak tool in the increasingly important realm of cyberspace, where it can be extremely difficult to be absolutely sure of an attacker’s identity.

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that