Piracy Quotes

The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy. (MC Hammer)
Piracy has destroyed the domestic market. View quote
Zhang Yimou
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. View quote
Steven Soderbergh
[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's food. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
Piracy is almost always a service problem. View quote
Gabe Newell
They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property. View quote
John Steinbeck
I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services. View quote
Daniel Ek
The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is. View quote
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends. View quote
Riz Ahmed
Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it. View quote
Tim Heidecker
We are apt... to forget that the moral force of Christianity was usually only one factor in producing such a change as the abolition of slavery or piracy, and that over against the benign influences of the Church must be set the malign and divisive influences which she created by persecuting zeal, intellectual intolerance, or religious wars. In short, we must soberly face the fact that a good many deductions have to be made from the popular panegyrics, and that the Church has not accomplished all that is often claimed for her. (Walter Rauschenbusch)
As we came away we ran into Lloyd George. Turning to me he said: "What are you going to do, my boy, when you grow up?" "I'm going into the Navy, sir," I replied. He frowned. "There are many greater storms in politics. If it's piracy you want, with broadsides, boarding parties, walking the plank and blood on the deck, this is the place." His words had gone home. That evening I confided to my father that what Lloyd George had said had decided my life. It would be politics for me. View quote
David Lloyd George
Piracy is our only option. View quote
Emma Thompson
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day. View quote
Scott Lynch
I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy. View quote
Michael Palin
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late. View quote
Tucker Max
The right to enjoy liberty is inalienable. To invade it is to usurp the prerogative of Jehovah. Every man has a right to his own body-to the products of his own labor-to the protection of law-and to the common advantages of society. It is piracy to buy or steal a native African, and subject him to servitude. Surely, the sin is as great to enslave an American as an African. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
Just when you thought it was safe to think, in comes mental piracy! View quote
Brandon Boyd
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. View quote
Lily Allen
I know a little of navigation: / War, trade, and piracy, allow, / As three in one, no separation. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. (Jared Polis)
Boulder Rep. Jared Polis is something of a hero to the medical marijuana industry, but recently he took on another fight: the battle against the Stop Online Piracy Act. View quote
Jared Polis
Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives. View quote
Nick Harkaway
For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don't make any money. View quote
Tim O'Reilly