A Quote by Tim O'Reilly

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

Tim O'Reilly

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Artists Most Obscurity Piracy Problem

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Tim O'Reilly
Irish - Businessman
Born: June 6, 1954

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

Seth Godin

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

Cory Doctorow

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

Tim O'Reilly

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

Tim O'Reilly

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

Antony Johnston

I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry - that gave us Spotify.

Daniel Ek

In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication.

Peter Middlebrook

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

Ernie J Zelinski

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

Charles Stross

I don't think it's fair to pinpoint Asia in terms of piracy. It's a worldwide problem. With 'The Expendables 3,' piracy extended everywhere, and over 10 percent of it was in the United States. So I don't want to put my hands over my eyes. It's a shame there is no DVD business in a lot of Asia, certainly China and India.

Jon Feltheimer

The U.S. government is saying that my website enabled piracy when the entire Internet is enabling piracy. Every ISP that connects people to the Internet is enabling piracy - Google is, YouTube is, everybody is.

Kim Dotcom

Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.