There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies – not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business. John Perry Barlow Read Quote
The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual. John Perry Barlow Read Quote
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. John Perry Barlow Read Quote
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. John Perry Barlow Read Quote
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. John Perry Barlow Read Quote
I don’t think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it’s going to go there one way or the other. John Perry Barlow Read Quote
Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander… It’s just an extension of humanity. John Perry Barlow Read Quote
Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic. John Perry Barlow Read Quote