Quotes About Piracy

It is not that the contemporary world of music lacks an audiopolitics, but rather that it is coded as the politics of the market: who owns and controls the sound files. The politics of intellectual property and piracy have eclipsed the politics of musical form or content.

There was malware you could download from pirate websites, malware that you could send to other people's cellphones to find out their GPS locations. It could be sent to other people invisibly, attached to text messages. If he could get his hands on another cellphone and download

Ex-soldiers formed one of the largest subgroups of English vagrants. Sailors were the vagrants of the sea, and were often drawn into piracy.

There being no international copyright laws, "pirated" editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.