For years the top record label executives have been claiming that it’s impossible to compete with free, but YouTube is proving them wrong. With billions of views every month the major record labels are making millions by sharing their music for free. For many people YouTube takes away the incentive to ‘pirate,’ but at the same time it may also cannibalise legal music sales.
Source: Is YouTube Killing Music Piracy?
When it comes to using physical force to resolve conflicts, there are few who do that better than the elite fighters of the SAS, the British Special Air Service. But an ex-SAS soldier, who has successfully exchanged his gun and explosives for pen and paper, believes the solution to book piracy lies not in head on conflict, but the art of persuasion.
Source: Ex-SAS Soldier Avoids Conflict in Book Piracy Battle
A manga creator and distributor has offered to do something positive with thousands of unauthorized copyright files to be found on file-sharing networks. In what appears to be a first of its kind project, users will be encouraged to upload their illicit media to a website where they will be repackaged with advertising and subsequently reintroduced legally back into the wild.
Source: Distributor Offers To ‘Purify’ and Monetize Pirate Files
A manga creator and distributor has offered to do something positive with thousands of unauthorized copyright files to be found on file-sharing networks. In what appears to be a first of its kind project, users will be encouraged to upload their illicit media to a website where they will be repackaged with advertising and subsequently reintroduced legally back into the wild.
Source: Distributor Offers To ‘Purify’ and Monetize Pirate Files
Saudi Airlines has been caught showing pirated film during a flight this week, a Blu-Ray rip of Killers to be exact. Whether the airline makes a habit of pirating its in-flight entertainment is unclear, but the “Killers 2010 BDRiP AC3 XViD-ILOVE” reference is a clear indication that showing a pirated copy is sometimes preferred over the material provided by official distributers.
Saudi Airlines has been caught showing pirated film during a flight this week, a Blu-Ray rip of Killers to be exact. Whether the airline makes a habit of pirating its in-flight entertainment is unclear, but the “Killers 2010 BDRiP AC3 XViD-ILOVE” reference is a clear indication that showing a pirated copy is sometimes preferred over the material provided by official distributers.
The MPAA, RIAA and other entertainment industry groups want people to believe that piracy is the result of people’s greed and refusal to pay. A recent experiment by Wolfire Games sheds another light on this argument, as they found out that even a penny can be too much.
Once again the music industry has come out with disappointing results for physical music sales, which they blame entirely on file-sharing. What they failed to mention though, is that their findings show that music pirates are buying more digital music than the average music consumer. Since digital music is the future, pirates are the industry’s most valuable customers.
A survey conducted by the New Zealand based research firm UMR Research found that nearly half of the respondents think that it’s morally okay to watch porn on the Internet. Downloading music and movies illegally, on the other hand, is frowned upon by an overwhelming majority of the respondents.
The Delhi High Court has fined Microsoft for harassing alleged software pirates by taking them to court in the national capitol, instead of the cities where the crimes had supposedly occurred. According to the ruling, using money as a power tool is not condoned without repercussions.
