33 Piracy Quotes for You to Enjoy

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates. Gabe Newell

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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. Kim Dotcom

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records. Lily Allen

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I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing. Richard Phillips

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No one seriously believes that unlocking a cellphone to switch carriers is equivalent to piracy. Ajit Pai

Seriously Unlocking No-One Equivalent Piracy Switch Believes

I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive. Cutter Hodierne

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Piracy was kind of hard: It took a few minutes to download a song. It was kind of cumbersome. You had to worry about viruses. It's not like people want to be pirates. They just want a great experience. Daniel Ek

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services. Daniel Ek

Born Known Piracy Sweden Services

The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom. Evgeny Morozov

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It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way. Helen Mirren

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I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem. Jared Polis

Just as the music industry couldn't combat the financial impact of digital piracy, major corporations will have to rethink how to maintain margins when many of their most profitable items can be easily manufactured at home. Jay Samit

It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally. Jimmy Iovine

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For every IP block, DRM, and who-knows-what security feature Hollywood spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on, some piracy kid will undo it for free and within a couple of minutes. Lexi Alexander

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The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is. Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy. MC Hammer

Music Fight Strategy Took Music Industry Approach Wrong Industry Piracy

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy. Michael Palin

People Somalia More Know Looting Than Piracy Want

We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales. Nick Harkaway

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U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place. Nick Turse

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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. Paul Watson

Protesting Piracy Against Illegal Activity

Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry. Richard D. Zanuck

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I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business. Richard Parsons

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Piracy was risky business, and injuries were commonplace; a single lost limb or gouged-out eye could end a pirate's career. To encourage pirates not to hesitate in battle - and out of a sense of fairness - many pirate crews compensated wounded crewmen in predetermined amounts. Robert Kurson

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Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't. Ron Wyden

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