” 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. “
” If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry – from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet – in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff. “
” The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there you go – 1,000 bankers in jail, a trillion dollars in fines. But it doesn’t happen. Instead, the spy network is being used to fight a copyright case. They used Prism to spy on me. “
” The U.S. government is saying that my website enabled piracy when the entire Internet is enabling piracy. Every ISP that connects people to the Internet is enabling piracy – Google is, YouTube is, everybody is. “
” I’m a businessman, and I think there’s nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make. “
” I prefer being able to choose who I want to help or what I want to improve in the world by making a lot of money myself rather than just going out there and talking about things. If you have money to do things, it’s much better than just talking about them. “
” When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you’re an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money. “
” I was an online service provider. It’s not my job to police what people are uploading. It’s the job of the content owners, and the law is very clear. If you create content, and you want to protect your copyrights, you have to do the work. “
” If you create something, you don’t want someone else to go and profit from it, you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don’t respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don’t respect is a business model that encourages piracy. “
” I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you’re successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know. “
” It’s things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you’re a researcher and you need some answer to something, and in today’s world you can find it this quickly, it allows you to develop whatever you are doing much faster. “
” Megaupload was a dual-use technology. You can use it for good things, and you can use it for bad things. If someone sends something illegal in an envelope through your postal service, you don’t shut down the post office. If someone speeds with the car he just bought, you don’t go to the car manufacturer and say, ‘Hey, we’re shutting you down. “
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