Piracy Quotes

57 Piracy quotes by 49 unique authors

Piracy is our only option. — Emma Thompson
Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for… — Daniel Handler
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day. — Scott Lynch
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly
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… — Nick Harkaway
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends… — Charles Stross
Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it. — Anne Sweeney
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… — Peter Middlebrook
I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see… — Unknown Author
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… — Kim Dotcom
Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. — Paul Watson
Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companies for staff and technologies dedicated to monitoring users and censoring… — Rebecca MacKinnon
The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and… — Peter Middlebrook
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… — Nick Turse
We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware… — Unknown Author
The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy. — MC Hammer
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me. A toast to piracy and it's many shiny rewards. As a career, what could be more… — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Piracy Quotes

49 authors contributed a total of 57 Piracy Quotes, led by these top contributors: