Helping people Quote by Peter Sunde

For private use, filesharing and copying should be legal.

— Peter Sunde

We are quite sure the Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden.

— Peter Sunde

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

— Charles Stross

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

— Dave Grohl

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

I'm going to be writing to British artists, saying just this: File sharing's not OK for British music. We need to find new ways…

— Lily Allen

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

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

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

— Lexi Alexander

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

— Hilary Rosen

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

— 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