Piracy Quotes - Page 2

• 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 hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Years, Gold

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• 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

  Roles, Attention, Pay

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

  Asa Butterfield

  Crime

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• As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

  Henry Adams

  Real, Democracy, May

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.462, Harvard University Press

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• When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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

  Anne Sweeney

  Issues, Different, Way

  "Neil Smit and Anne Sweeney on TV's future". Interview with Stephanie Mehta, fortune.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Piracy is almost always a service problem.

  Gabe Newell

  Problem

  Interview with Nicholas Tufnell, www.tcs.cam.ac.uk. November 24, 2011.

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• Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.

  Bob Iger

  Contentment, Digital, Needs

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

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Pirate, Motto, Satiety

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• It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

  Helen Mirren

  Art, Philosophy, Independent

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• The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.

  Charles Stross

  Dirty, Book, Average

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

  Daniel Handler

  Healing, Teens, Reason

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• He doesn't have super powers or the biggest, baddest gun. The point isn't how many people you can kill or how you kill them. He is there to fight piracy, greed, and cruelty in all their forms on land and sea

  Billy Zane

  Fighting, Gun, Sea

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• Piracy is our only option.

  Emma Thompson

  Emma Thompson (2007). “Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries”, Newmarket Press

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• I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and in many ways that's what sets apart good music and musicians from the fly by night pop sensations.

  Ben Howard

  Thinking, Night, People

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Cheat, Trade

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.236, Bantam

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• The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Home, Government, Doors

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• When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Reality, Ego

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• The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Art, Nice, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it.

  Luis Miguel

  Change, Hurt, Responsibility

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• When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.

  Jared Polis

  Way, Site, Dies

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• Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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

  Michael Palin

  People, Want, Somalia

  "Michael Palin's hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• 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.

  Tim Heidecker

  People, Needs, Way

  "Tim and Eric (and Will Forte)'s Zero-Dollar Interview". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 25, 2012.

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• As a label I don't care about piracy. I want the music that we [my band] love to be heard by as many people as possible. The more people like the music we put out, the better the label and artists will do. If anyone genuinely likes what we do they will find us, buy our vinyl or come to see the artists play live.

  Justin Broadrick

  Artist, Play, People

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