These piracy quotes will inspire you. Piracy, the act of illegally copying someone’s product or invention without permission or the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging piracy quotes, piracy sayings, and piracy proverbs.
Best Piracy Quotes
- “I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.” ~ Neil Young
- “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.” ~ Gabe Newell
- “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.” ~ Gary Wright
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“Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.” ~ Seth Godin
- “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.” ~ Morgan Freeman
- “Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.” ~ Henry Jenkins
- “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.” ~ Nick Harkaway
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“Fight piracy; don’t squash innovation.” ~ Joe Kraus
- “It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.” ~ Jonathan Coulton , Anti piracy quotes
- “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.” ~ Lily Allen
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“The problem for most artists isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.” ~ Tim O’Reilly
- “Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.” ~ Zhang Yimou
- “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.” ~ David Lloyd George
- “PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
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“The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.” ~ Cory Doctorow
- “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue.” ~ Gabe Newell
- “It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.” ~ Bill Gates
- “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.” ~ Neil Young
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“The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don’t realize how big it is.” ~ Lorenzo di Bonaventura
- “Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.” ~ Tim O’Reilly
- “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
- “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.” ~ Aaron Swartz
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“More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.” ~ Charles Stross
- “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
- “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 without charging: we called them “librarians”.” ~ Charles Stross
- “Piracy doesn’t hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.” ~ Eminem
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“Don’t do piracy. Piracy is a crime.” ~ Asa Butterfield
- “When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it’s actually just a history of desperate people.” ~ Daniel Handler
- “Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.” ~ Anne Sweeney
- “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
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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
- “Piracy is almost always a service problem.” ~ Gabe Newell
- “A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.” ~ Bartholomew Roberts
- “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
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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
- “Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.” ~ Daniel Handler
- “He doesn’t have superpowers 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 , Sea piracy quotes
- “Piracy is our only option.” ~ Emma Thompson
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “When the money dries up, the sites die off. That’s the way to go after piracy.” ~ Jared Polis
- “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
- “I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.” ~ Michael Palin
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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
- “Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.” ~ Steven Soderbergh
- “I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.” ~ Daniel Ek
- “British establishment uses “the royal we,” as in, “We think this.” You hear a lot of that these days. It erroneously suggests that those who are making the decisions to bomb countries, to devastate economies, to take part in acts of international piracy involve all of us.” ~ John Pilger
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“I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It’s really taken a big hit with piracy, so it’s a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it’s truly reckless.” ~ Cliff Martinez
- “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. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.” ~ Charles Stross
- “For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist ‘peace’ to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .” ~ Vernon A. Walters
- “A global financial cabal engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US; and used ‘privatization’ as a form of piracy – a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder Clearly, there was a global financial coup d’etat underway.” ~ Catherine Austin Fitts
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“The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.” ~ Agnieszka Holland
- “For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in secret prisons, all with the help of the United States. That’s serious piracy.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science “biopiracy” and “intellectual piracy.” According to patent systems we shouldn’t be able to patent what exists as “prior art.” But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as “prior art.” Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation.” ~ Vandana Shiva
- “I think that’s really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates and rock ‘n’ roll go hand in hand. There is a `question authority,’ `don’t be afraid to break the rules’ quality that whether you’re a 4-year-old bouncing on your bed as your parents are trying to stop it or an adult longing for that feeling, there’s something inside all of us that piracy speaks to. I’m going to do what I want to do and I don’t care what you think.” ~ Gore Verbinski
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“Piracy doesn’t bother me that much, to be quite honest.” ~ Roland Orzabal
- “The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it’s made making stuff available really difficult.” ~ Scott Ian
- “Piracy doesn’t kill music, boy bands do.” ~ Ricky Gervais
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“Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?” ~ Charles Stross
- “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.” ~ Will Oldham
- “They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren’t so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people’s property.” ~ John Steinbeck
