"Whole infrastructures of social relations, of exchange and communication and control have been built on the foundations provided by piracy. Piracy is generative as well as retributive (...) The role of pirate distribution in structuring these collective cultural reservoirs is immense given its global ubiquity. It is not possible to speak of...
"...global imaginaries or literacies without also speaking of piracies." Ramon Lobato, Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution, p. 91.
- Miguel Caetano