Napster Quotes

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.

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

I can`t endorse Napster because I`m a professional musician, but Napster did give me the idea that I can give something back to my supporters.

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

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.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

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.

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.

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.

I`m surprised they`ve taken things quite as slowly as they have. It`s that sort of arrogance and lethargy that made Napster happen. Where is the real action?