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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.
Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.
I would want to get rid of the piracy.
Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.
Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.
Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
Piracy is almost always a service problem.
Everyone in Bollywood must unite to fight piracy.
Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
I think piracy itself is going to end up going away.
Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.
I always say this, but I'm saying this again. Do not encourage piracy.
I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.
More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.
I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Money spent by Hollywood to fight piracy: hundreds of millions of dollars.
When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.
The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.
Piracy should be taken very seriously and strong actions should be taken against it.
One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue.
No one seriously believes that unlocking a cellphone to switch carriers is equivalent to piracy.
It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.
The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.
It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.
Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.
I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.
I am not saying 'Dum' flopped only because of piracy. But the money which went to the offenders could have gone to the producers of the film.
The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.
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.
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 business learned much too late.
One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.
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 beyond are substantial.
Until the governments don't have a clear law against piracy and the digital downloads are not working worldwide properly, the record industry will keep on suffering.
The Merchant Marines fight piracy all over the world. We fight piracy in the Philippines, the east and west coast of Africa, and the east and west coast of South America.
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.
I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.
Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.
With piracy, people think it's about getting stuff for free. It's not - it's about getting rid of the middleman that stands between you and your enjoyment of the film or music.
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.
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 in sophistication.
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.
Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwriter could imagine. They operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, from 1650 to 1720.
Those trying to drag me down through piracy, I want to tell them that I will somehow achieve what I want. I am focused enough to achieve what I want and give the audience what I can.
The most desirable and appropriate solution to piracy is for the United States government to provide protection through military escorts and/or militant detachments aboard U.S. vessels.
For every IP block, DRM, and who-knows-what security feature Hollywood spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on, some piracy kid will undo it for free and within a couple of minutes.
My views on piracy and illegal streaming are I think it's illegal for a reason, and I feel like there's a lot of people working hard behind the scenes to get the fights going and showing things on TV.
Piracy was kind of hard: It took a few minutes to download a song. It was kind of cumbersome. You had to worry about viruses. It's not like people want to be pirates. They just want a great experience.
