Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.