Gabe Newell Quotes

I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

The U.S. government is saying that my website enabled piracy when the entire Internet is enabling piracy. Every ISP that connects people to the Internet is enabling piracy - Google is, YouTube is, everybody is.

We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.

If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.

I've always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a product available that is well priced, well timed to market, whether it's a movie product, TV product, music product, even theme-park product.

Money spent by Hollywood to fight piracy: hundreds of millions of dollars.

When I hear the news that the pirated version of my film is doing rounds, I cannot keep quiet.

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.

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

I download music everyday, I know music is free and so does everybody else you know.

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

The best way to really make the VPN issue a completely nonissue is through global licensing that we are continuing to pursue with our partners.

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

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.

There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

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