Sentence examples for it's piracy from inspiring English sources

One investor, who recently moved two-thirds of his $1 billion fund out of American media and into emerging-market companies, moans that "the market thinks something's going to get them, whether it's piracy, personal video recorders, or Google".Desperate to rescue its share price, Viacom broke itself in two on January 3rd.

"It's piracy".

She told us she'd downloaded all our songs off of YouTube… J: It's piracy.

"It's piracy coming on land," said Peter Smerdon, a program spokesman.

But we all know... the disruptions that can occur, whether it's piracy, smuggling of people, of drugs, of weapons, terrorism -- all of that disrupts maritime security".

Essentially, Netflix's CEO Reed Hastings was making the case that it was piracy and not legal entities like Hulu or HBO that were the biggest competitors to Netflix's business.

It was "piracy," he said.

Both were written before the rise of the commercial internet, notes Rich Greenfield of BTIG, a research firm.Many are watching the case to make sure the verdict does not imply that it is piracy to transfer any sort of content via the internet without a licence from whoever owns the copyright to it.

"The MPAA is probably a good covering factor in that [Chinese regulators] can say, 'It's piracy, it's not good and we're a nation of laws,'" said one Beijing-based media analyst who spoke off the record in order to frankly discuss government policies.

Now those 20 aren't even happening, yet people in China are still watching new DVDs, which means it must be piracy.

Oh, right: it's still piracy.