Quotes About Piracy

Video piracy is among the most irritating aspects of modern life for those who work in the film business. Adverts telling you not to commit video piracy are among the most irritating aspects of modern life for those who don't.

Piracy should be taken very seriously and strong actions should be taken against it.

Piracy should be banned in absolute entirety and stricter rules should be made.

Piracy is the majority of the Internet.

In all honesty, the reason we did The Pirate Bay was to bring freedom and take back control from a centralized system.

I see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay was never for making people not pay, it was for making people free to choose what to share and who they want to share it with.

The Pirate Bay was never for the money.

These pirates are evolving, and we must stay with the curve and evolve with them to stop these incidents from happening.

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.

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

When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.

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

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

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.

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

I'm against people downloading music.

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

It is when the pirates count their booty, that they become mere thieves.

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

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.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

For the student of war, the Horn of Africa offers a cornucopia of violence and destruction. It has interstate wars and civil wars; international military interventions and maritime piracy; genocidal massacres and non-violent popular uprisings; conventional wars fought in trenches and irregular wars fought by jihadists and followers of a messianic cult.

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.