Piracy Quotes - Page 4

• Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.

  Joe Kraus

  Media, Giving, Innovation

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• People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

  Charles Stross

  Strong, Believe, Mp3

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• Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Obscurity, Problem, Bigger

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• The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

  Agnieszka Holland

  Player, Voice, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A global financial cabal engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US; and used 'privatization' as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder Clearly, there was a global financial coup d'etat underway.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Moving, Government, Debt

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• The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

  Scott Ian

  Internet, Worst, Difficult

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Movie, Dvds, Years

  "Thinking outside the box office". Interview with Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. December 1, 2005.

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

  Daniel Ek

  Sweden, Born, Known

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