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Artists Don’t Want Pirate Fans to be Disconnected | TorrentFreak
Last week, a group of music and other entertainment industry representatives urged the UK government to consider drafting legislation that would force ISPs to disconnect alleged pirates. This proposal now faces opposition from an unexpected corner as a coalition of top artists has spoken out against it, saying that disconnecting their fans is the wrong path to take.
Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior
Earlier this week, we got our first glimpse of the Kindle DX, Amazon’s upcoming E-book reader that has taken the original Kindle’s nearly prohibitive $359 price tag and bumped it up to an even more exorbitant $489 for good measure. Granted, the DX has one major improvement: a bigger screen that makes it suitable for textbooks, professional journal articles, and even newspapers. I’ve spent the last few days mulling over the future prospects of the new device, and up until a few hours ago my forecast was looking pretty grim. But then a lightbulb went off over my head: pirates are going to save the Kindle DX.
The Real Pirate Bay - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.
Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.
Let's draw out the distinction.
The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for....violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions.
On the one hand, we have damages worth maybe (maybe) a few million. On the other, a few trillion.
On the one hand, innovation and better music is stifled - benefits are foregone. On the other, reform of a broken banking system is stifled - losses are incurred.
That's everything that's wrong with the economy in two sentences: the ongoing inability of today's leaders to deal with 21st century economics.
Piracy: An Important Message From the Global Entertainment Industry
The Pirate Bay is carrying this spot-on cartoon on what we already knew about labels and studios: Their "new media—first radio, then TV, then tapes, then video—will kill our industry!" argument is simply stupid FUD.
News from The Pirate Bay Press Conference | TorrentFreak
Just hours ago The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån held a joint press conference at the Museum of Technology in Stockholm. It was broadcasted live on the web and Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm spoke at length. Here is a breakdown of some of the key points.
An epidemic in illegal downloading - web - Technology - smh.com.au
File-sharing is no longer just in the realm of frustrated Star Trek fans, with almost every television show that screens in the US or Britain available online within 24 hours at DVD quality or better. Movies are also often available before they even open
In Defense of Piracy - WSJ.com
This war must end. It is time we recognize that we can't kill this creativity. We can only criminalize it. We can't stop our kids from using these tools to create, or make them passive. We can only drive it underground, or make them "pirates." And the que
xkcd - A Webcomic - Steal This Comic
Remember, if you pirate something, it's yours for life.
Matt Mason on The Pirate's Dilemma
Mason discusses why piracy can be an opportunity as well as a threat, how pirates innovate outside of the marketplace and how legitimate businesses can respond.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | The views from The Pirate Bay
Technology has changed. You can't go back, there's no way to go back. And I don't think there's a will to go back.
Radiohead’s Warm Glow - New York Times
Some economists suspect that... people get a kick from the act of giving the band money for the album rather than taking it for free... [pleasure in bypassing the record labels, help keep Radiohead in business, help create a new art form... a new economy]
Daring Fireball: It Is Estimated That NBC Could Not Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse
The rough price for a TV episode has already been established at roughly $2 a pop. It’s called the DVD box set. Most network shows have 24 episodes per season. Most season-spanning box sets cost between $40-60, at most. At $5 per episode, it would cost
Music CD, I'm just not that into you
Does anyone really think that consumers could buy 800 million more DVDs, worth $10 billion or more, without cutting back on some other entertainment spending? Similarly, the number of households with broadband Internet connections almost quadrupled to ove
Interview with a Warez Scene Releaser | TorrentFreak
Just because someone downloads an expensive piece of image editing software it does not mean that the person would have purchased it. But the software industry states that each pirate copy is equal to one lost sale.
New York teen sues record industry
A New York teen, dubbed a pirate by the Record Industry, is counter suing them for defamation, violating anti-trust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
Disney-ABC: "We understand piracy now as a business model"
... the goal becomes offering a more compelling product than file-swapping networks can provide, rather that attempting (for instance) to sue the users who like your content. For ABC, this has meant launching their own streaming media player and providing
NETRIBUTION - Torrents, piracy and beyond: will the film industry survive?
I just hope that when the final pieces come together they don’t come attached... as simply a continuation of the US-centric, shareholder-accountable media world built around a drive to increase profit margins.
BBC NEWS | Technology | File-sharing 'darknet' unveiled
A "darknet" service that allows users to share music files anonymously on the web has been launched in Sweden.
EFF: Frequently Awkward Questions for the Entertainment Industry
EFF has prepared a sample list of tough questions for times when you hear entertainment industry representatives speaking and want to challenge their positions. Asking hard questions is a way of "keeping honest people honest" and revealing when they're ac
Politicians smell votes in Sweden's file-sharing debate - Technology - International Herald Tribune
Many experts say that, in the end, an alternative to current copyright legislation will have to be created, and that a global fee is one likely solution.
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