Piracy Quotes

A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

— Bartholomew Roberts

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

— Zhang Yimou

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

— Ricky Gervais

Piracy is our only option.

— Emma Thompson

I would want to get rid of the piracy.

— Sheek Louch

“Piracy begins where creativity ends.”

— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

“The real piracy wasn’t downloads. It was contracts.”

— Jason Colapietro

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

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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

— Bill Gates

We need new voices, new people, new activists and new ideologies in the piracy scene.

— Peter Sunde

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

— Michael Palin

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

— MC Hammer

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

— Eminem

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

— Tim O'Reilly

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Peter Sunde

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea.…

— David Lloyd George

The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind…

— Morgan Freeman

We are four individuals on trial. But The Pirate Bay has its own life. It is not dependent on us as persons.

— Peter Sunde

No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar - it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you…

— Peter Sunde

As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy…

— Henry Adams

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and…

— Louis L'Amour

That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action;…

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every…

— Luis Miguel

[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get…

— Cory Doctorow

I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish…

— Jared Polis

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the…

— Nick Harkaway

“In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been…

— Anonymous

Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their…

— Stephan Kinsella

I think that's really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates…

— Gore Verbinski

We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the…

— Steve Jobs

Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Neil Young

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

— Troy Carter

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

— Allu Arjun

“Piracy of Bollywood; or Bollywood of Piracy, Tough to Say.”

— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

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

— Raza Murad

One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,

— Gabe Newell