IFPI rhetorics imply that file-sharing supports terrorism
A few days ago, IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) put out a press release titled “ten inconvenient truths“, which claims to offer new insights into the…
Category: DRM
Great 09 F9 … art
I just love how quickly and creatively the issue around “09 F9 …” has spawned a bunch of cool art. As you can imagine, I’m a huge fan…
iTunes will sell the complete EMI catalog DRM-free
Apple and EMI announced that the whole EMI catalog will be sold through the iTunes music store DRM-free: Higher-quality music files, which will play on any computer and…
P2P is media piracy’s biggest enemy
BoingBoing quotes a great story about how P2P filesharing puts media pirates out of business: A media pirate — someone who sells pirated DVDs and CDs for a…
Why DRM drives piracy
Jim Baen explains the connection between DRM & piracy, and why DRM doesn’t stop, but foster piracy: Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an “economic…
re:publica program is online
The conference program for re:publica 07 (April 11-13, 2007, Berlin, upcoming.org link) is online. (Sorry – German only, so far.) If you happen to be in Berlin at…
“Piracy is Progressive Taxation…”
“… and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution” is the title of an essay Tim O’Reilly wrote in 2002. Occasionally I re-read it, and every single…