Words matter. These are the best Downloading Quotes from famous people such as Jaron Lanier, Peter Sunde, Kim Dotcom, JPEGMAFIA, Ronan Keating, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
Illegal downloading will exist forever – it can’t be stopped, people don’t want it to stop.
The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.
I really got deep into downloading music when I moved to the South and got a computer. So I was downloading the The Diplomats, AZ, Half-A-Mil, 40 Cal.
I love iTunes. I love downloading music.
Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.
Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don’t really mind people downloading my music; I also see it as a compliment. And if you are a real music lover, you want to have the original CD anyway ’cause then you feel more connected to the artist.
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn’t have the rights for it.
Theatre’s still expensive compared to downloading on Netflix; that has to be addressed. It doesn’t mean it has to be over-subsidised by the state, but it’s something we’re trying to figure out.
I’m against people downloading music.
I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn’t hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn’t affect anyone – come on.
When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.
The diversity of content is now offered from streaming and downloading, so young people are really not going to theaters because they don’t see any particular benefit.
Downloading a song for free is the easiest way to get all kinds of music. Everything else is tough and I am sure, even if people wanted to buy music, they won’t be able to because they will not understand the way to buy music online. It is a very complicated process.
I have one of those Garmin watches, and I’m OCD about downloading my runs no matter where I go. I used it on an 18-mile run in Paris, a 12-miler in the mountains of Montana, a couple of runs in the Bahamas. Wherever I am, I try to run. That’s what’s so great about it.
I went to college during the Kazaa/Napster era, and we had free Internet, which was a huge deal. People were just downloading all of everything.
Downloading songs is not good.
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
The royalties from downloading are bad enough but the royalties from streaming are non-existent.
Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people’s stuff may be easy, but that doesn’t make those activities right.
Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music… People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.
I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I’m a fan of downloading, both legal and illegal, and the open-source ethos that it harbours for the future is a good one.
Signing up to be an organ donor should be at least as easy as downloading a song to your iPhone.
The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source.
It’s been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that’ll be released in December that’s gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that’s a fact then it’s really interesting to own your own product – with all the potential methods of downloading.
I’m not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming – I’ve always been a man of the theaters.
One thing I always do is listen to my iPod. I listen to whatever is kind of new on the radio, I am always downloading stuff.
I was interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends. At the same time, Larry started downloading the Web, which turns out to be the most interesting data you can possibly mine.
I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading ‘Pokemon Go.’ But I’m addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don’t necessarily need that helping hand.
In March 1977, I taped the single ‘Career Opportunities’ off Piccadilly Radio, which was the ’70s equivalent of downloading, and then the album came out in April 1977.
I travel a lot for work, so downloading books is easier than carrying them around.
I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It’s not meant to be listened to that way.
Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.
I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I’m constantly downloading music to iTunes.
People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It’s no money out of my pocket.
Downloading and Web 2.0 have famously led to new ways of accessing culture. But these have tended to be parasitic on old media. The law of Web 2.0 is that everything comes back, whether it be adverts, public information films or long-forgotten TV serials: history happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube.
I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won’t necessarily protect it from disappearing.
Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it’s free – that’s probably third on the list – but because it’s immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.
It’s time to debate images, especially when someone’s going to prison for downloading them.
I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I’m not going to drive hard into ‘You should buy my stuff,’ because really, it’s inevitable. If you like a song, you’re going to download it for free. I have no problem with that.
Good jazz has been a big part of my life as far as my interest in music, and… It’s kind of weird now with music, the way technology is, with downloading and iPods and electronic distribution, and its kind of – you miss something, I think.
