Illegal Downloading Quotes

Piracy is almost always a service problem.

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.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

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.

I don't think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading; I think the real enemy of the music industry is radio.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

I think record companies are criminals.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

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.

The thing that sucks the most about it is that everybody steals music. You spend thousands and thousands of dollars to make a record and all of these scumbags are just stealing it.

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

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.

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.

I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

Most people still steal music.

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.

I don't think it's fair to pinpoint Asia in terms of piracy. It's a worldwide problem. With 'The Expendables 3,' piracy extended everywhere, and over 10 percent of it was in the United States. So I don't want to put my hands over my eyes. It's a shame there is no DVD business in a lot of Asia, certainly China and India.

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.