Quotes About Copyright

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

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.

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.

I think piracy itself is going to end up going away.

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

Piracy should be taken very seriously and strong actions should be taken against it.

Piracy should be banned in absolute entirety and stricter rules should be made.

We need new voices, new people, new activists and new ideologies in the piracy scene.

Piracy is the majority of the Internet.

In all honesty, the reason we did The Pirate Bay was to bring freedom and take back control from a centralized system.

I see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay was never for making people not pay, it was for making people free to choose what to share and who they want to share it with.

The Pirate Bay was never for the money.

**(C)(P) YES! ALL MY WORKS HAVE BEEN COPYRIGHT REGISTERED BEFORE ANYONE SEES THEM ONLINE OR OFF. I HAVE SHARED MANY WITH THE PUBLIC FOR THEM TO SHARE WITH OTHERS WHO WOULD FEEL HOPELESSNESS AND ATTEMPT SUICIDAL ACTS WHILE HARMING OTHERS. THIS TOO IS MY -LEGACY!

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

It's been possible for years to use a PC to watch and record over-the-air television broadcasts, and unencrypted cable television tuners have been available almost as long. But for a long time, you could only watch copyright-protected channels with a cable company-leased box.

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

If someone has copyright over some piece of your stuff, you can sell it without permission from the copyright holder because the copyright holder can only control the 'first-sale.' The Supreme Court has recognized this doctrine since 1908.

I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents.

If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.

eBooks are not transferrable. They cannot be sold, shared or given away as it is an infringement on the copyright of these works. This book is an original publication of the author who wrote the story herein contained. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.