I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.
The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.
Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.
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 same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.
Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.
One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue.
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.
It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.
The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
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.
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.
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.
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