Piracy Quote by Charles Stross

Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books…

— Charles Stross

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…

— Tim Heidecker

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

— Gabe Newell

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.…

— Charles Stross

Piracy is almost always a service problem.

— Gabe Newell

“The people who read pirated books are never going to buy your work anyway; it’s a totally different audience than purchasing readers. Even if…

— Sean Platt

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…

— Tucker Max

“If “piracy” means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry…

— Lawrence Lessig

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

— Anne Sweeney

“Please don't encourage or espouse e-piracy...the sharing, swapping, or trading of e-books is outlawed by the DMCA unless authorized by the copyright holder.”

— Fran Lee

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have…

— Simon Armitage

Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks

— Cory Doctorow