Combating Piracy: You can (and must) compete with free

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Rarely does a news item relating to piracy go by without some industry representative exasperating that they cannot compete with piracy because it is free. Not true - and many lessons can be drawn from industries unrelated to piracy...

Pirate Bay founders told to walk the plank for piracy offenses – hoping for some Mr Miyagi Magic

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 ...

PiracyPayback.org … the first post

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 ...