Break Quote by Dave Rowntree

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

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer…

— Jaron Lanier

Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a better way…

— Richie Havens

Throughout the history of the Internet, most of the innovation has come as a by-product of efforts to facilitate communication within social groups of…

— John Quiggin

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

A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends,…

— Max Richter

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

— Scott Westerfeld

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

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

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

— Lexi Alexander