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 ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Founders of The Pirate Bay have been handed their arguably severe sentences upon being found guilty in the piracy spectrial held in Sweden.
The initial prosecution arguments looked flaky at best and did much to support the view that the industry at large is technologically challenged. However they turned their performance ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Let's face it; piracy of content has been around arguably since content was first generated. A recent article in the New Statesman provides a highly relevant anecdote about composer Adalbert Gyrowetz attending a concert in 1789 that was advertised as being a symphony by Haydn - only to find himself ...
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