Napster Quotes

• I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

  Dave Rowntree

  Challenges, Records, Pennies

  "Reanimator". Interviewed with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2001.

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• When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

  David Boies

  Thinking, Important, Firsts

  "David Boies: The Wired Interview". www.wired.com. October 01, 2000.

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• This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

  Morgan Freeman

  Kids, Protection

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• Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

  Al Gore

  Creativity, People, Imagination

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• Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.

  Hilary Rosen

  Thinking, Losing, Making Money

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• Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

  Shawn Fanning

  People, Music Love, Share

  "Federal Court Tells Napster to Stop Trading Copyrighted Material". "CNN Today", www.cnn.com. February 12, 2001.

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• When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

  will.i.am

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

  David Boies

  Vicarious, Infringement, Music Is

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• I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, Music Business, Sean

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• It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.

  Courtney Love

  Fun, Believe, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Mp3, Media

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

  Dan Farmer

  Copyright, Violation, Models

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• I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Rocks, Band

  "Michael Moore Takes on His Pirates!" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. June 19, 2007.

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• With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Greed, Labels

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• I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

  Steven Levy

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ideas

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• Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales.
  Now we make records to promote tour dates.

  James McMurtry

  Records, Spotify

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• Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.

  Sean Parker

  Building, Spotify, Products

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• I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?

  Frank Stallone

  Hate, Kind, I Hate

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That is the way I look at it. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.

  Art Alexakis

  Kids, Thinking, Looks

  "Does Napster Allow Theft on a Grand Scale or Just Innocent Swapping?". "Crossfire" with Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2001.

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• The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.

  Darl McBride

  Running, Broken, Linux

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