Post Tagged with: "piracy"

France’s Contradiction on Piracy

France found itself at the centre of two major intellectual property stories yesterday. First, the French National Assembly adopted the "three strikes" approach that could result in the termination of Internet service for French subscribers (approved today by the Senate).  The approach has been highly contentious and sets up a possible showdown with emerging European laws that protect access to the Internet.  Second, as I blogged yesterday, the Business Software Alliance released its annual global piracy study.

Where is the connection? 

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May 13, 2009 1 comment News

15 Years of Anti-Piracy Warnings

TechDirt points to Guardian collection of anti-piracy warnings, dating back to video cassettes.

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April 13, 2009 1 comment News

Nintendo Not Blaming Canada

Nintendo has issued a release summarizing its submission to the USTR in the Special 301 process.  Despite the regular, inaccurate attempts by some groups to paint Canada as piracy haven, Canada is nowhere to be found on the Nintendo list. [hat tip: Game Politics]

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February 26, 2009 3 comments News

MCPS-PRS Alliance and Big Champagne Assess the Radiohead Experiment

Eric Garland and Will Page of MCPS-PRS Alliance have published a brief study on the effects of Radiohead freely releasing its album.  Garland notes in a media report that "the expectation among rights-holders is that, in order to create a success story, you must reduce the rate of piracy – […]

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August 5, 2008 3 comments News

Masnick on BSA’s Piracy Stats

Mike Masnick of Techdirt demonstrates how the BSA's piracy stats mislead.

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July 21, 2008 3 comments News