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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
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
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. -- Steve Jobs
The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy. -- MC Hammer
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
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. -- Tucker Max
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. -- Richard Parsons
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
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. -- Callum McDougall
Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry. -- Richard D. Zanuck
Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do. -- Ricky Gervais
I look at radio as gone "¦ Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around. -- Neil Young
The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies. -- Lloyd Kaufman

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