Community Quote by Lexi Alexander

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

— 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

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

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

— Aaron Swartz

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

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Peter Sunde

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

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