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Two years ago, Techdirt wrote about the major report "Media Piracy in
Emerging Economies", which explored how media and software piracy in
emerging countries is largely a question of economics:
people and companies there simply cannot afford Western-style pricing,
and resort to alternative sourcing. That hasn't stopped media and
computer companies from demanding that governments around the world
should inflict ever-more harsh punishments on their own people.
On
Techdirt.
Although all eyes have been on the European Parliament this week,
that doesn't mean things have stopped elsewhere in the EU machine. In
particular, the European Court of Justice, the highest in the EU, has just delivered a stunning and really quite unexpected judgment that could have major implications for the digital world.
On
Open Enterprise blog.
So, once again, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has come out
with its annual report on software piracy around the world, entitled
"Shadow Market" [.pdf]. And, once again, it makes all the same methodological mistakes - it's almost as if the BSA hasn't been reading my critiques of last year and the year before....
On
Open Enterprise blog.
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