Top 138 Piracy Quotes & Sayings

Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.

Piracy is our only option.

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.

I would want to get rid of the piracy.

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

The solution for piracy is to redefine piracy. Make things possible for everyone, without being labelled it as a crime.

Everyone in Bollywood must unite to fight piracy.

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

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

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

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.

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

Piracy is not a threat, it's a need.

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

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

Until the governments don't have a clear law against piracy and the digital downloads are not working worldwide properly, the record industry will keep on suffering.

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.

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

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

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.

As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

I couldn't be happier teaming up to make the feature with a company as innovative as VICE. There is so much the world doesn't know about piracy in Somalia and the people involved, and I'm excited to be telling a story of piracy in Somalia from a different perspective.

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than 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.

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.

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

Piracy is the majority of the Internet.

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

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

Piracy is almost always a service problem.

Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

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

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

One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.

No one seriously believes that unlocking a cellphone to switch carriers is equivalent to piracy.

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

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.

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.

I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

The Merchant Marines fight piracy all over the world. We fight piracy in the Philippines, the east and west coast of Africa, and the east and west coast of South America.

By interacting with NATO vessels on E.U. anti-piracy duty, the Chinese are gaining valuable insights in to Western naval doctrine.

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

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

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

Monetization of rights in an era of YouTube, Google, online piracy and free downloads is the biggest challenge for the entire entertainment industry.

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.

U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place.

I am not saying 'Dum' flopped only because of piracy. But the money which went to the offenders could have gone to the producers of the film.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

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