The only way to even try to limit file sharing, is to…

There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance.…

— Laura Poitras

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

— Mark Twain

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies…

— Annette Bening

Everybody has their private world,where they can be alone!

— Eminem

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

— John McAfee

“In historical methodology, it says that the more private a communication is, the more authoritative it is.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The…

— Dave Rowntree

Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books…

— Charles Stross

Young people should investigate where the filmmaker stands on the issue of file sharing, before they spend money on them at all.

— Lexi Alexander

My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled…

— Gene Simmons

It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.

— Colin Meloy

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's…

— Aaron Swartz

The 'solution' to file sharing was never centralizing content control back to a few entities - that was the struggle we were fighting for.…

— Peter Sunde

I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.

— Seal