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10 June 2012
BSA Piracy Study: Mere Shadow Boxing?
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So, once again, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has come out with its annual report on software piracy around the world, entitled &q...
20 May 2012
The Sky Continues To Rise: EU Gross Box Office Returns And EU Film Production Both Hit Record Highs In 2011
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Even though just about every objective statistic suggests otherwise , the copyright industries still take turns bemoaning the terrible tol...
12 May 2012
UK Consumer Ebook Sales Increase by 366%: Publishers Association Calls For Digital Piracy To Be 'Tackled'
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One of the beloved tropes of the copyright industries is that they are being destroyed by online piracy. Superficially, it's a plausi...
11 April 2012
If Piracy Is So Devastating, Why Are We Seeing An Unprecedented Outpouring Of Creativity?
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One of the favorite tropes of the anti-piracy crowd is that all this unauthorized sharing is killing culture, pauperizing artists and gen...
07 March 2012
ACTA Update X
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As far as we can tell, ACTA has been put on hold for months, maybe even a year, while the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considers its c...
Hacktivist Judo: Musician Exploits New Spanish Law To Overwhelm System With Legitimate Infringement Complaints
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As Techdirt reported earlier this year, Spain's Sinde Law, designed to combat file sharing by blocking sites with allegedly infringi...
Time To Go: Why EU Commissioner De Gucht Has Disqualified Himself From Handling ACTA
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Even though the European Commission has referred ACTA to the European Court of Justice, the European Parliament continues to examine the...
22 February 2012
Australian Government Holds Secret Anti-Piracy Meetings; The Public Is Not Invited
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As Techdirt noted recently, policy-making behind closed doors is no longer acceptable. Until the end of the 20th century, it was hard f...
DMCA Takedown Service Tells Copyright Companies: 'Adapt Your Business To The New Digital World'
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Although DMCA takedown notices figure quite frequently here on Techdirt -- especially abusive ones that use the system to remove material...
17 February 2012
SOCA's Frightening New Approach to Music Piracy
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Yesterday I wrote about the unusual aspects of the Serious Organised Crime Agency's take-down of the music site RnBXclusive. As I n...
Portuguese Artists Association Struggles To Get Even 100 Members On List In Favor Of Exorbitant New Private Copying Levies
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Few ideas display a sense of entitlement better than that of private copying levies. For they assume, by definition, that artists' r...
Serious Organised Crime Agency Takes Down Music Site
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One of the positive outcomes of the debate that has raged around SOPA/PIPA is that more people have looked at the facts, rather than list...
How Do We Know That Piracy Isn't Really A Big Issue? Because Media Companies Still Haven't Needed To Change As A Result Of It
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One of the positive outcomes of the debate that has raged around SOPA/PIPA is that more people have looked at the facts, rather than list...
13 February 2012
Do The Differences Between Software Piracy And Media Piracy Matter?
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Danah Boyd (or danah boyd as she prefers to be called) is widely recognized as an authority on privacy, identity and social networks. A ...
04 February 2012
Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture
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Last Year Techdirt wrote about the case of the huge collection of historic jazz recordings that had been acquired by the US National Jaz...
25 January 2012
Paulo Coelho On SOPA: 'Pirates Of The World, Unite And Pirate Everything I’ve Ever Written!'
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We've written about the hugely-successful Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho many times before, because he is a great example of an artis...
New Market Research: Music Streaming Services Halve Illegal Downloads
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For a long time, the copyright industries have taken the position that they won't launch new digital music services until piracy is &...
SOPA Stopped: So Back to ACTA
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So the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of copyright maximalist legislation, SOPA and PIPA, have been halted in their passage through the US legi...
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09 December 2011
Spotting Counterfeit Chips Is Hard; Spotting Digital Piracy Is Even Harder
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One of the favorite techniques of those pushing for ever-more severe penalties for copyright infringement is to blur the distinction betwe...
24 November 2011
Sarkozy Worried About The Internet 'Stealing Audience Share' From 'Regulated' TV Services
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Earlier this week Techdirt reported on the surprisingly forthright statements of Neelie Kroes concerning the failure of the copyright syst...
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