“For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services. — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
Illegal downloading will exist forever - it can't be stopped, people don't want it to stop. — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
He doesn't have super powers or the biggest, baddest gun. The point isn't how many people you can kill or how you… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
For every IP block, DRM, and who-knows-what security feature Hollywood spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on, some piracy kid… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to… — Peter Middlebrook Copy Share Image
The Pirate Bay was never for making people not pay, it was for making people free to choose what to share and… — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
Until the governments don't have a clear law against piracy and the digital downloads are not working worldwide properly, the record industry… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of… — Steven Levitan Copy Share Image
“For the masses of unemployed and resentful local youth, piracy was a quick way to achieve the respect and standard of living… — Jay Bahadur Copy Share Image
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Video piracy is among the most irritating aspects of modern life for those who work in the film business. Adverts telling you… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
British establishment uses "the royal we," as in, "We think this." You hear a lot of that these days. It erroneously suggests… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the… — Vernon A. Walters Copy Share Image
“If “piracy” means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A global financial cabal engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US;… — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“But as well as copy-shop piracy, there is another kind of "taking" that is more directly related to the Internet. That taking,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image