Top 10 Piracy & P2P Blogs
Thursday, November 26th, 2009These sites are arguably the most influential commentators with news and views on piracy, P2P, digital media, DRM, Usenet, IP and filesharing ...
These sites are arguably the most influential commentators with news and views on piracy, P2P, digital media, DRM, Usenet, IP and filesharing ...
Why Giving Away Music Concedes Defeat to Piracy
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009As much as we here love TechCrunch, it is rare for them to publish an article on digital media or piracy without a reference to their 2007 party-line that music should be free (Orli Yakuel’s recent Guide to Music on the Web being a notable exception).
Bundling Old Media with New is a Boon for Piracy
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Hard-bundling old media offerings with new is one of the most daft market developments we have seen and arguably does nothing to combat digital piracy. What does it look like? It typically involves some radically new and innovative digital service being available exclusively to users who also have some legacy old-school ...
The State of Play in Game Piracy
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Every now and then we get a nudge from our readers bemoaning the fixation of piracy commentators on the music and movie industries. In light of our commitment to all things piracy in digital media, it would be remiss of us to pass comment on the state of play in ...
Stop Piracy by Bundling Media with Web Access – Can “Music Tax” Work?
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Last 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 ...