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There were 141 billion global visits to pirate sites in 2023, up 12% compared to 2019

- MUSO Analytics

We have to be an economically viable industry in order to make movies. If you don’t want to ever pay for movies, then you won’t get movies.

- Kiah Roache-Turner, Writer/Director Wyrmwood: Apocalypse

"The prevalence of piracy chips away at the viability of the business models built on the production and distribution of creative content."

- Scott Lorson, CEO, FetchTV

“Australia has a sophisticated IP regime, which in principle offers appropriate tools to assist rights owners to protect their content.”

- Diane Hamer, BBC Studios

The web is just a tool created by people - reflecting both the best and worst of humanity. It's not a utopian technology that can work outside of our existing social rules and structures.

- Tilly Blyth - Head of Collections and Principal Curator, Science Museum, London

Why is it acceptable to sell a car for $70,000 that only cost $10,000 to manufacture yet completely unjustifiable for a company who spent $100million making a film … to recoup those costs and make enough profit to fund the next one”

- Frank Zappa

Content Cafe would like to wish all of our readers a joyful and safe holiday and a happy new year. Here's to a successful 2021.

"Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg was also a towering figure in the world of copyright, where she authored important and eloquent opinions championing the rights of creators."

- Charles Rivkin, CEO of the Motion Picture Association

Ian Munford on Piracy "unless the industry comes together to tackle it head on, it has the potential to threaten its long-term viability."

- Ian Munford, Akamai

"[Piracy] operators bait millions of users with illegal content so they can perpetrate identity theft, steal bank and credit information, and inflict other harms."

- Ruth Vitale, Creative Future

"30% of piracy websites are deliberately infected with malware"

- Ruth Vitale, Creative Future

"Piracy threatens the existence of professional sport as we know it."

- Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)

“Attackers use some popular movies as lures. And then they ensure that their malicious payload is part of the overall packages that a user ends up downloading.”

- Tanmay Ganacharya, Microsoft Threat Protection

"As a small-business owner or artist, your intellectual property may be the most valuable asset you own. Make sure you treat it that way."

- Alexander Webb - The New York Times

"This is a matter of principle. Copyright theft costs hundreds of jobs”

- Malcolm Turnbull - former Australian Prime Minister

"As prices come down, many consumers will counterintuitively expect more for the bargain they are already getting."

- David Newhoff

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