Disdain Quote by Colin Meloy

I think we need to stop looking at the file-sharing community with disgust and instead ask ourselves what we can learn from them.

— Lexi Alexander

The criminalization of file sharing is pathetic. It's so pathetic, it's almost funny. Imagine if the radio people would have lobbied for a federal…

— Lexi Alexander

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

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

— Lawrence Lessig

Non-commercial file sharing should of course become legal and protected, and must re-think copyright all together.

— Peter Sunde

“The only way to even try to limit file sharing, is to introduce surveillance of everybody’s private communication.”

— Christian Engström Rick Falkvinge

It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.

— Shirley Williams

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

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

— Charles Stross

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

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

For private use, filesharing and copying should be legal.

— Peter Sunde