Rick Falkvinge Quotes

• Bitcoin is getting there. But it’s not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Running, Government, Income

  "Why Bitcoin Is Poised To Change Society Much More Than The Internet Did". Personal Blog, falkvinge.net. April 03, 2013.

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• Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Usa, Bitcoin, Currency

  "How Bitcoin Can Bring Down The United States Of America". Personal Blog, falkvinge.net. June 04, 2013.

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• Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Email, Bitcoin, Industry

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• Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Giving Up, Communication, Way

  "'Avast ye scurvy file sharers!': Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge". Wikinews Interview, June 20, 2006.

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• We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Fighting, Artist, Culture

  "'Avast ye scurvy file sharers!': Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge". Wikinews interview, en.wikinews.org. June 20, 2006.

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• The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.

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  Children, Responsibility, Liberty

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• When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Iron, East, Way

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