They also can combine voice with instant messaging and…

Predators will look for any way to talk to children online whether through sites like Myspace, instant messaging, or even online games.

— Mike Fitzpatrick

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

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

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

— Anonymous

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication.…

— Eric Schmidt

“the average knowledge worker opens his or her email program fifty times a day and uses instant messaging seventy-seven times a day.”

— Chris Bailey

The sole forms of social interaction I was aware of as a kid involved a jungle gym and a sticker book. It was only…

— Dan Levy

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

New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by…

— Patti Smith

The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the…

— John Darnielle

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

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

— Lexi Alexander

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

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