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The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library - Falkvinge on Infopolicy

falkvinge.net
2012-12-10T16:50:40.000Z
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It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive, and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency.

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Skull & Crossbones Vandalize Studio Games » Game Maker Blog

gamemakerblog.com
2012-11-29T02:21:58.000Z
gaming piracy drm to:fb imported:pinboard

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So, because DRM never goes wrong, let's just vandalize the content created by the purchasers of our software. Oh wait, we meant to do that to the pirates. Oh well.

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The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record | TorrentFreak

torrentfreak.com
2012-05-08T16:24:58.000Z
copyfight avengers movies piracy to:fb imported:pinboard

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Despite the widespread availability of pirated releases, The Avengers just scored a record-breaking $200 million opening weekend at the box office. While some are baffled to see that piracy failed to crush the movie’s profits, it’s really not that surprising. Claiming a camcorded copy of a movie seriously impacts box office attendance is the same as arguing that concert bootlegs stop people from seeing artists on stage.

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Piracy problems? US copyright industries show terrific health

arstechnica.com
2011-11-03T00:59:03.000Z
copyfight piracy imported:pinboard

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"Things are going so "badly" that a major new report commissioned by copyright holders says that these "consistently positive trends solidify the status of the copyright industries as a key engine of growth for the US economy as a whole.""

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Piracy and Copyright Challenges in 1841 Mirror Those of Today

www.reddit.com
2011-10-24T12:48:32.000Z
copyfight copyright piracy imported:pinboard

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All-You-Can-Stream Music Services Reduce Piracy, Says Study

www.readwriteweb.com
2011-09-29T19:45:00.000Z
piracy music copyfight imported:pinboard

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If you are a pirate, this is what you get... but if you are a PAYING CUSTOMER, this is what you get

i.imgur.com
2010-02-18T23:35:22.000Z
drm dvd movies piracy copyfight riaa mpaa funny imported:pinboard

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Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words

yro.slashdot.org
2009-10-30T14:42:12.000Z
patents piracy writing amazon imported:pinboard

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Damn - I had this idea for use on my own work, if I ever got around to self-publishing. "Amazon's newly-patented System and Method for Marking Content, which calls for 'programmatically substituting synonyms into distributed text content,' including 'books, short stories, product reviews, book or movie reviews, news articles, editorial articles, technical papers, scholastic papers, and so on' in an effort to uniquely identify customers who redistribute material. "

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Sony Pictures CEO: The Internet Is Still Bad | Techdirt

techdirt.com
2009-05-27T23:18:25.000Z
sony internet copyfight piracy content culture freedom p2p drm imported:pinboard

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"A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period. Plenty of online sites (including ours) took him to task for that, wondering how one gets to be the CEO of a major content company without understanding the internet. Today, Lynton hit back at critics -- not by saying he was quoted out of context or misunderstood, but by standing behind the statement and adding some gems to it as well. Let's take a look..."

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Why (most) authors and publishers need not fear online piracy

arstechnica.com
2008-04-04T02:09:53.000Z
writing publishing marketing piracy imported:pinboard

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"Given the difficulty of breaking into print in the traditional way, the Internet looks to many aspiring authors like a powerful new way to distribute content and find an audience; it has promise, not peril."

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Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing - Times Online

entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
2008-04-02T18:34:26.000Z
writing books piracy ohnoes imported:pinboard

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"Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales"

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The argument against mod chips just doesn't hold water

arstechnica.com
2007-06-27T18:03:13.000Z
modchips hacks hardware gaming piracy imported:pinboard

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"The only real argument is against piracy, but I know many people who mod their systems for legitimate purposes."

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Modder faces jail time after raid turns up counterfeit games, mod chips

arstechnica.com
2007-06-27T18:01:21.000Z
homebrew piracy modchips hardware hacks imported:pinboard

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"Despite the hate from the ESA and console manufacturers, many gamers are big fans of mod chips, but not because of the piracy angle"

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Boing Boing: HD-DVD re-cracked six days *before* it is patched

www.boingboing.net
2007-05-17T15:31:39.000Z
hddvd aacs drm copyfight piracy imported:pinboard

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"Key revocation doesn't work. Suing the Internet doesn't work. DRM doesn't work ... Pirates who download movies don't ever see DRM. Honest customers who buy media are the only people who ever get restricted by it "

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Wired News: Downloading Is a Packrat's Dream

www.wired.com
2007-03-07T16:30:03.000Z
hoarding collecting piracy downloading usenet entertainment imported:pinboard

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"It starts with good intentions. 'I'm going to get all of these movies while I can.'"

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Why piracy is still more common than legal video downloads

arstechnica.com
2006-12-28T23:04:29.000Z
p2p copyfight piracy imported:pinboard

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"P2P clearly gives you more bang for your buck"

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Russian Software Developer Beats Pirate in Boxing Ring - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

mosnews.com
2006-03-25T19:20:28.000Z
nifty piracy programming boxing imported:pinboard

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"An employee of Cognitive Technologies computer company has beaten a man who was selling the company's software illegally."

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'p2p is leagal its already bought its in the air' | The Register

www.theregister.co.uk
2005-10-06T11:22:34.000Z
copyfight piracy music imported:pinboard

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"Piracy is big fat guys manufacturing fake CDs in Mexico and selling them at swap meets."

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The Long Tail: "Just enough piracy"

longtail.typepad.com
2005-08-26T16:20:05.000Z
copyright piracy longtail imported:pinboard

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"The lesson is to find a good-enough approach to content protection that is easy, convenient and non-annoying to most people, and then accept that there will be some leakage."

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Free legal downloads for $6 a month. DRM free. The artists get paid. We explain how…

www.theregister.com
2004-04-12T18:50:06.000Z
copyright economy music piracy imported:pinboard

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