Quotes About Piracy

When I hear the news that the pirated version of my film is doing rounds, I cannot keep quiet.

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

Every time anyone did an advertisement on The Pirate Bay they would get a call from the record or movie industry saying they'll sue them for financially assisting with a crime.

No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar - it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it.

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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.

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

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.

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

I always say this, but I'm saying this again. Do not encourage piracy.

We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

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

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.

Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.

Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively.

The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.

I think piracy itself is going to end up going away.

Money spent by Hollywood to fight piracy: hundreds of millions of dollars.