Piracy Quotes

• I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.

  Neil Young

  Looks, Gone, Radio

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• 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

  Technology, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

  Seth Godin

  Obscurity, Problem

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• The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

  Gary Wright

  Music, Art, Tools

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• The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.

  Morgan Freeman

  May, Kind, Internet

  "Freeman lobbies against piracy". Interview with Farah Nayeri, www.deseretnews.com. June 4, 2005.

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• Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

  Henry Jenkins

  Moral, Producers, Market Failure

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• Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.

  Nick Harkaway

  Song, Loss, Years

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• Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

  Joe Kraus

  Fighting, Squash, Innovation

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• It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

  Steve Jobs

  Music, Online, Stores

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.

  Jonathan Coulton

  People, Stuff, Easy

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• 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

  Artist, People, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Artist, Obscurity, Problem

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• Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

  Zhang Yimou

  Destroyed

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• One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue.

  Gabe Newell

  Issues, Pricing, One Thing

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

  Cory Doctorow

  Obscurity, Problem, Bigs

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.116, Macmillan

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• What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

  David Lloyd George

  Blood, Sea, Storm

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• PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Justice, Made, Folly

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.226, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Linux

  "How Microsoft conquered China" by David Kirkpatrick, archive.fortune.com. July 17, 2007.

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• The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  People, Realizing, Bigs

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.

  Neil Young

  Looks, Gone, Want

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• Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Artist, Creative, Obscurity

  "The real cost of free: a response" by Helienne Lindvall, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2010.

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• But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Dark, Wealth Of Knowledge, Greed

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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• More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

  Charles Stross

  Symptoms

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

  Eminem

  Hurt, Artist, Albums

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• Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

  Charles Stross

  Book, Names, People

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