Industry Quote by Tom Petty

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

— Steve Jobs

We've learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn: give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want…

— Kevin Spacey

In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

— Terry Bozzio

The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.

— Trent Reznor

I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just bothers me.…

— Steve Mahoney

Most people still steal music.

— Steve Ballmer

I think the [music] industry really suffered from music being available online because it made young people feel, "why should you pay for music,…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair.

— Jay-Z

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff…

— Scott Ian

For some, music is a limitless source of cheap content, just waiting to be exploited.

— Mick Hucknall

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads…

— Gary Wright

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