I must have this shirt. (Ah, the irony — I’m more than willing to pay $22.95 for an overpriced shirt I’ll probably only wear a few times, but $7.99 for an album’s worth of my favorite music? Are you kidding me?)
Tag archives for Piracy
Jason Davis over at Teleread noted a Guardian story about authors and publishers demanding an anti-piracy campaign focused on ebooks (suggested slogan: home taping is killing the publishing industry.) Davis goes on to note four ways in which he believes the publishing industry is itself largely responsible for ebook piracy. I couldn’t agree more. A…
GoToHellMan recently published a hilarious parody of publisher complaints about piracy Offline Book “Lending” Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion, Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to…
So Roger Friedman is this sort of bottom-feeding entertainment writer who Fox News has been syndicating for awhile. Finally he does something useful and posts a review of the leaked and torrented unfinisd print of the “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” movie, and he’s got entertard bloggers calling for his head. Typical of the genre is Josh…
Pirates of the Amazon is/was an interesting experiment that quickly got a cease-and-desist letter from Amazon.com. For a day, however, the site hosted a Firefox extension that assisted the user in pirating works for sale at Amazon. As TorrentFreak put it, An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible…
Id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead tells GameIndustry.Biz that PC manufacturers are happy that piracy is rampant on the PC, Q: It’s the barrier-for-entry thing isn’t it? It’s really easy to pirate PC games whereas console games are much harder to pirate so the returns are better. What can PC hardware manufacturers do to make it…