Loss of Revenue Quotes

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper, without focusing on the potential negatives, not least of which is that idiots can more easily listen to your favourite music.

Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

The day my film 'Dum' released, it was available on pirated DVDs and VCDs. They showed the movie on cable channels. It was pathetic. It was so frustrating.

The promotional cycle's this staging area for failure. I hate it! Why bother when everyone's either gonna steal the album or copy it?

Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.

The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.

Why should we bother making a super high-quality, expensive album if nobody is going to pay for it anyway and will just download it for free as an MP3 that has no depth whatsoever because of the small file size?

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

My only opinion on the L&H 'home movie' situation - I regret we have no financial interest in them.