It has often been said that in a free market, the value of a product or service is whatever people are willing to pay for it. Whenever I’m speaking to someone who expresses confusion about how a given service provider or retailer can charge the price of a good or service that they do with…
After an unanticipated delay stemming from the carnage caused by Hurricane Sandy, the Center for Copyright Information’s “Copyright Alert System” (CAS) is kicking off this week, according to a blog post published today by the CCI’s Jill Lesser. “Over the course of the next several days our participating ISPs will begin rolling out the system,”…
As you might recall if you follow copyright and piracy-related news, Google announced back in August that it was going to start taking into account the number of valid copyright removal notices it received for any given site, and use that measure as one factor in where such sites appear in Google’s search response pages.…
Over on Mashable, there’s a recent post that includes an infographic entitled “The Obscenely High Penalties of Downloading Music” attributed to Total Bankruptcy Attorneys. Couched in language that makes it quite clear that the bankruptcy attorneys take a dim view of rights-holders who employ litigation against end-user consumers as part of their anti-piracy strategy, the…
