"Pirates of the Ethereal Sea is an amazing blend of high piracy and high magic."
"It's really [__] cool to be a pirate. Try as they might, not even Ubisoft can mess that up."
"Bring me bounties, plunder, and once you're done with that, bring me some plunderous bounty."
"Bartolomeo is absolutely on the road to pirate king, and honestly, I'll be surprised if he doesn't get there soon."
"What I love about Kuro is that he's doing everything he can to disappear and retire from piracy; what he seeks is essentially what Luffy wants: freedom."
"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem."
"If paying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."
"People who pirate media the most are also the most likely to spend the most money on media."
"Piracy is a really thorny subject. Yes, piracy is wrong, you should not be taking a product that you are asked to pay for."
"Piracy is very much a service problem and they believe that providing a good service to the consumer is the way to go."
"Piracy is wrong, emulation is great because emulation is what preserves these pieces of media for history to consume decades down the road."
"Like, if you pirate an album, but you weren’t gonna buy it anyway, no one’s bottom line is really getting hurt, so does that make it okay?"
"Piracy IS a problem. And, if someone is pirating your work or even worse, making a profit off of it; you have the right to stop it. But not at the cost of freedom of speech, and fair use IS freedom of speech."
"Fellas, is it gay to be male pirates who get married and share loot from our voyages? 1600s marriage between male pirates is common."
"Although they were pirates, they were not uncivilized."
"The first ever pirate shipwreck from the golden age to be positively identified and authenticated."
"In response to the surge in Pirate activities, multinational Naval task forces were established."
"Those men were fearsome, exceptional pirates, who used overlooked intelligence and feral charm to rob the Caribbean blind during the height of all piracy."
"Nassau became an overnight pirate haven, with rogues of all kind fleeing unfriendly ports to congregate on one massive, pirate-friendly island."
"Rackham talked a big game, as many pirates may have at the time, but the reality is that he begins our story as only a lieutenant on a far more prominent pirate’s ship."
"Anne Bonny may very well be the reason we remember Calico Jack at all."
"Piracy is a service problem. The way to defeat piracy is to provide a better service than the pirates."
"Every pirate who succeeded in finding riches, there were dozens more who ended up as pathetic, wretched, miserable failures."
"Battling piracy is a relentless pursuit for all hard-working developers because, if those pesky seadogs can find a way to play a game without paying for it, they’ll certainly find out how."
"We come from the bootleg cassettes era, and back then we really were beating up bootleggers."
"Sony did all the crazy stuff with the PS Vita because they saw piracy rip apart the PSP."
"He may have ended it as the richest pirate in history."
"It's crew versus crew, jacking ships, shooting clips, and robbing those rich pricks."
"Being a pirate is all about going your own way."
"Just the fact that you can get an audience with the highest powers that be in their safest of places as a pirate is insane."
"Piracy is a service issue, it's a train you can't stop so you may as well build it a proper railway."
"Captain Brineybeard: Sweet pirate with a heart of gold."
"It's like a gift that keeps on giving. You'll rule the day you dare to shanghai the scourge of the seven seas, goddamn right they will. Look not to heaven, the screams of success!"
"Pirates not worth his wait in gold unless he's got himself a ship, baby. Just the beginning though."
"Simple functions model the most complex periodic phenomena."
"As a pirate nation, you can order your ships to raid nearby nations for sailors and ducats and benefit from a massive mission tree."
"Piracy is inevitable, so it's better to embrace it." - Sean Hogan
"Even major multinational companies cannot stop piracy, so why the hell can you?" - TotalBiscuit
"Pirates are considered an enemy of all mankind."
"Piracy is often the only way older titles can be preserved."
"Pirating games is the only way to preserve many of them."
"The only organization on this planet that could actually defeat the world government in all-out war is pirates."
"Every pirate that they capture has about a 50/50 or better shot at making the world a slightly better place."
"The world was very nearly conquered by pirates."
"Kiss anime and kiss manga have been taken down permanently."
"You can't yell at people for piracy when you don't give them a way to give you money to play your games. Point blank period."
"Being the Pirate King simply is being the most free."
"There's another theory that pirates could have come from inside the ship."
"Piracy is a service problem; emulation is a service problem."
"Countries could hijack your ships within sight of your ports and you couldn't do anything about it."
"Corsairs in Ross Crie have their own culture, worship different gods, and are more like pirates."
"Perhaps the most famous pirate is Captain Morgan."
"Perhaps on the rare occasion, pursuing the right course demands an act of piracy."
"Playing a pirated game isn't as simple as downloading a file."
"Incidents like these aren't uncommon on the Switch's pirating scene."
"Despite piracy largely being something that harms game console sales..."
"There's always going to be people who want to pirate and there's always going to be these services."
"Pirates are not just about murder and plunder, it's about the adventure and having fun."
"Parlay is like a safe zone, where rival pirate crews can talk and discuss things."
"Piracy in all its forms has always thrived here."
"The Pirates were forced to leave the ship and surrender."
"Piracy will always be a problem, especially when you're dealing with say open software, the budget for Triple A games, the graphical requirements, the escalation in all respects is getting out of control."
"The easiest way to stop piracy is by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates."
"Piracy is a service issue 100. If I can just have the product as is in the right format and way and I just pay for the convenience then I'm gonna do it."
"Blackbeard Pirate's greatest strength is simple strategy."
"This concerns an Argentine TV station that would broadcast pirated content from Nickelodeon as well as Disney before it was shut down."
"I own lots of spaceships, some of which I pirated, and I have sold many more. I have built several bases. I own several nice houses. I'm over level 100. I have spammed more adaptive frames than most."
"Another day for pirating, pillaging, and booty!"
"You wouldn't download a handbag, you wouldn't download a car, you wouldn't download an entire government now, would you ladies and gentlemen?"
"Piracy exists, and in this case, I 100% support it."
"From seducing women to annihilating enemies - the pirate's arsenal knows no bounds!"
"From a mischievous kid to a naval adventurer - the pirate's journey begins!"
"Piracy for me is a two-fold thing, lots of morality issue. I believe that for the free markets to continue to exist, one must pay an appropriate and fair price for a product or service."
"Piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue."
"Legend has it that in the 18th century John Lucas, the most infamous Gower pirate and Smuggler, used Culver hole as a base for his illegal operations."
"Luffy wants to be a pirate cuz I'm like you don't really because anytime you see someone doing a crime you're like a dick about it you know what."
"You can participate in piracy, force them to hand things over based on the Firepower of your own ship versus theirs."
"You can provide a better service than pirates, and you can even charge for it."
"Boa Hancock is the greatest female pirate in history, being the only woman to ever hold the position of a Warlord."
"It gives people who want to pirate a more lucrative than a larger target allows you to. Kind of nice and things like that."
"Making things difficult for people does not stop piracy, it encourages it."
"This might even be the treasure of Lima stolen by pirate captain William Thompson in 1820."
"It's kind of anticipated, steal a shipment of tea. That's what pirates do, isn't it?"
"True power in Blackbeard's mind would come from becoming the world king."
"Everyone knows that bounties are the most common way to quickly judge a pirate’s strength."
"Adewale is another character whose presence extends to more than one game in the series. After being born into slavery, he found a means for escape by joining a company of pirates."
"Piracy is a contributing factor. It is not the massive bug bear that publishers make it out to be."
"Many even hail her as the most successful pirate in history."
"Ching Shih made the bloody and chaotic work of piracy into a highly organized business."
"Let me know what you think in the comments below: is it piracy or is it a library?"
"The pirate cemetery of Madagascar, home of an estimated 1,000 pirates."
"The Wida was the flagship of one of history's greatest pirates, Black Sam Bellamy, known as the Robin Hood of the sea."
"The East represents peace and we're going to act the idea of the Marines originally was we're going to execute the king of the Pirates and that'll eventually just snuff out that flame that burning flame of piracy."
"How do you measure the success of a pirate? Is it by fame, by the number of ships they conquered, or the amount of treasures they pillaged?"
"He got away with it... truly made him worthy of the sobriquet 'the King of Pirates'."
"And really bad eggs. Drink up, me hearties, yo ho!"
"Luffy was inspired by Shanks to become a great pirate."
"The execution of the pirate king Gol D. Roger and the execution of his son Portgas D. Ace."
"Henry Morgan's daring, borderline reckless raids became the stuff of legend."
"Henry Morgan has earned his spot as one of the most notorious men to sail the seven seas."
"Morgan's crew left Portobello a rich man, receiving a share worth several times their annual wages."
"Morgan sailed out of Lake Maracaibo and into legend as one of the most daring pirates in history."
"Arguably the most successful pirate in history was a Chinese Admiral in charge of a vast fleet of hundreds of vessels manned by 70,000 men at its peak."
"This pirate had total control over a huge coastal area, humiliating the navies of at least three major powers."
"She was known as Chang I Sao, Chang's wife, or Chang I Ching's widow."
"She was the undisputed pirate queen of the South China Sea."
"Who am I? I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."
"The Golden Age of piracy remains a captivating period in history, characterized by tales of adventure, conflict, and daring escapades on the high seas."
"The worst pirate I've ever heard of, but you have heard of me."
"The most successful pirate in history was a woman named Ching Shih."
"A hero forget it, we're pirates. I like heroes a lot, but I don't want to be one. Pirates eat meat and have big parties, but heroes take meat and give it to poor people. I want to eat meat."
"He has acquired a status as the quintessential pirate, a swashbuckling buccaneer who terrorised shipping across the Caribbean and along the seaboard of what would become the United States."
"Drake's great pirate raid up the Spanish coast from Chile to Peru to Mexico was astonishingly bloodless for the Spaniards."
"Why clone the Rocks Pirates though? This crew that came within a bee's man parts of taking over the entire world."
"Piracy can be justified, but you have to remember that software and media don't just fall from the heavens. People have to make it."
"Stop making the user experience for paying customers worse than it is for pirates, and piracy wouldn't be a problem."
"I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves: a short drop and a sudden stop."
"What is the point of paying $100 a year when you can go to any number of piracy sites, download this content, and get a better, more high-quality, and honestly, a better experience?"
"Pirates were seen by the general populace as incredibly cool and sexy."
"You gotta have fun if you're at Pirate Island."
"Piracy has meant that certain ships' insurance premiums have gone up tenfold."
"The busy shipping lanes off the coast of Somalia make rich pickings for pirates."
"For any ship to be pirated is frustrating."
"One of the most successful pirates in history was a woman named Jing Shi."
"We need to do just a couple more plundering jobs as pirates."
"...Ching Shi shocked everyone with her aptitude for piracy."
"I'm a pirate, I don't have plans."
"Piracy itself can be the right cause."
"It almost single-handedly pulled the rug from music Pirates."
"Of the estimated 5,000 pirates active in the Caribbean between 1715 and 1725, it is said that almost one in three were of African heritage."
"Pirate ships were actually pretty great."
"...left to the predation of pirates to do whatever they want to those people, to take from those people, to plunder from those people. I thought it was just really, really important to show."
"A lot of bootlegs are coming from places where English isn't a Common Language."
"In order to be a successful pirate, you need to abide by this code."
"Anti-piracy ads: You wouldn't steal a car, so don't illegally stream."
"Many people still consider Avery to be the greatest pirate that ever lived not only because of the treasure that he stole but because he managed to evade the law for the rest of his life."
"In some ways, space is ideal for piracy. It’s far easier to raid and plunder when you’re dealing with isolated small communities separated by huge gulfs of distance and time."
"A classic Space Opera setting of maybe a few million sparsely inhabited planets in a galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars would seem like an ideal place for piracy, so big and empty."
"But until we stop supporting intellectual property thieves, the problem's only going to get worse."
"Whitebeard is a profound figure in the one-piece world having played a major role in almost every era of piracy."
"Whitebeard bore the mark of a true captain, someone capable of standing above all other pirates, commanding their respect, and leading the charge alongside them into battle."
"What about pirates? What about sharks? Piracy can happen and it's probably getting worse but you can avoid it, just don't go there."
"It's piracy because you circumvented a digital protection to access content without paying either in the form of money or time."
"If we don't own the games, then piracy is not stealing."
"Perhaps the real piracy are the friends we made along the way."
"All of those people that are shipping the routers that are using PSN plus illegally, they're just going to do that. Like this isn't actually going to solve the problem they're trying to solve."
"Anything that can be digitized will eventually be stolen and given away for free."
"...starting your own pirate ship account is completely free there's never any hidden charges or fees."
"The world's most successful pirate in history was a lady named Ching Shih. She was a prostitute in China until the commander of the Red Flag Fleet bought and married her."
"I want to become King of the Pirates."
"You kids have no idea how good you have it today with your pirate bays and your torrents and lime wires or whatever it is you kids use."
"George Lucas said something along the lines of 'if I could track down every pirated copy of this and smash it by hand with a hammer, I would.'"
"One of Blackbeard's most famous quotes is: 'The age when pirates' dream is ending. A man's dream never ends.' Now this is very similar to what the people from burka believe."
"I want a pirate hat, but leave the crew to me. Let's show them what true terror looks like!"
"Captain Kidd's surname likely comes from one of the most famous figures in pirate history, Captain William Kidd."
"Blackbeard literally said, 'Yo Ace, you can just join my crew, bro.'"
"Pirates and criminals have used the Internet to get away with wholesale theft of your creations, now they can be stopped."
"This is a pretty grim anti-piracy measure, even if the developers might have intended it to be funny."
"I think if you're going to make a bootleg, it's probably best to make one featuring a wrestler that people actually like."
"That's what being a pirate's all about. Loosen up."
"I think this happens every day a ship was attacked by The Dread pirate Roberts who never left captives alive."
"The meticulous planning and execution of the Navy's operation highlight the importance of international cooperation in combating piracy."
"Hollywood solution to fight online piracy: make movies so bad no one wants to watch them even for free."
"Being a pirate is not about raiding villages with perfect plans. It's about adventure and freedom."
"Roger's plan was to take advantage of the passion for this treasure to launch what would later be called: The Golden Age of Piracy."
"Nintendo will kill your pets if you try to pirate their games. Zeus has died. Nintendogs can only survive in legitimate Nintendo DS cartridges. Yeah, that happened with me once too. Tried to pirate Smash Bros, had a guy from Nintendo come to my house and shot my cat."
"Pirates are pirates, there's only one kind. Nami, I still stand by that, you're a pirate. You stole that boat in a very pirate-like manner."
"I'm a different kind of pirate, a good pirate."
"I'm not ready. I'm gonna be a pirate captain with my own ship."
"As long as companies continue to act in these anti-consumer garbage ways, piracy will continue to exist."
"Piracy is great, but it can't be the only solution for things."
"Blackbeard is a true pirate, arguably the most piratey character in all of One Piece."
"Cross kill's future role in the story: they have the highest chance in achieving a pirate's greatest dream."
"It's unlikely that many people who don't already pay for the likes of Sky and TNT would sign up because of that move though, especially those who flat out can't afford it, and therefore illegal streams will continue to flourish."
"Scrapping the 3pm blackouts and making every Premier League game available would probably be the single most effective tool to drastically reduce the number of people watching illegal streams."
"Spotify almost single-handedly saved the entire industry because compared to piracy it was easier and safer to just pay 10 bucks a month to stream whatever you want."
"Streaming didn't kill the music industry at all. Piracy had brought the music industry to its knees."
"A pirate is a pirate. I don't care what title they have."
"Pirate, and that's how you make the money. You get the stuff that's worth something."
"If I pirate, oh, we've matched by that, that'll be horrible against you too. Considering the kind of shot I did. I'm gonna keep it in, boys."
"Luffy declared that he would rescue Ace and disregard any pirate code."
"We seek a life of freedom and adventure. This is a world of pirates."
"What Napster did is enable people to get the music that I work hard for for nothing you know what I'm saying what they're basically doing is taking food out of my kids mouth I'm saying it straight up."
"He plundered sugar rum and loot from a series of English Merchant vessels."
"The Golden Age of piracy was only just beginning."
"I'm not that kind of pirate, guys."
"He doesn't care what you think about him he's going to be a pirate by any whatever way he feels is right if he saves the people he saves the people it's not because he's a different kind of pirate it's because this is what I felt like doing in the moment."
"Never left captives alive, murdered by pirates is good."
"Here's an interesting idea: I think maybe they were the first people to seek freedom, and they thought the idea of freedom was via piracy."
"The anti-piracy laws in Japan are so extreme... they like send a SWAT team after you."
"You did what any good pirate would do."
"Bonnet had become a lot more violent now even threatening to kill his own crewman if they refused to fight at times."
"He was taken to Charles Town where he was imprisoned to await trial but luck would strike one more time for our little gentleman pirate as he escaped captivity to begin his life on the run."
"Such was the case for a group of Somali pirates in 2009 who set off on a routine capture of a merchant vessel in the cover of the night they snuck up on their Target in two Skiffs and began firing their small arms to intimidate the crew and prep them for boarding."
"While 12 captures and one kill were tallied a Somali pirate spokesman said that 27 Pirates had gone out to sea."
"Does this have to do with piracy off the coast of Somalia? Yes, absolutely. This is the world's one of the most unique stock exchanges, this is a pirate stock exchange."
"A pirate doesn't need a black eye patch, a sword, or even a wooden leg. All you need is a floppy disk and maybe a little ingenuity."
"Software piracy is illegal. It's piracy if you give away a commercial software program, even if you give it away."
"it's about Adventure and freedom you gave up on your dream no one who does that can ever call themselves a pirate Luffy's got a very interesting view of piracy but I love it either way there will be good Pirates"
"Being a pirate is not about raiding villages. It's about adventure."