Archive for June, 2009

Stop Piracy by Bundling Media with Web Access – Can “Music Tax” Work?

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Last week, Jeremie Zimmerman of La Quadrature du Net appeared in Business Week saying that “File-sharing is unstoppable anyway. The real question will be about how to use it to find new ways of funding creation. All conservative and repressive measures are bound to fail.” There was one arguably non-conservative idea ...

Segmenting the Pirates

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

It is odd that the views on digital media piracy are so amazingly polarized: folks that pirate are either the scourge of the earth threatening to destroy creative media OR the liberators of information and entertainment from the clutches of their tightfisted masters. As foolish as this is, so too are ...