I’ve worked online for over a decade now, in a variety of capacities, and I’ve watched the Internet change, mature, devolve, quake and thrive. In all my various roles I’ve experienced moments of shock at the strange trolls and ogres lurking within this great web of knowledge, but nothing compares to the Anti-Piracy world and…
The problem of online piracy is not one of sheer, random malevolence; that is, pirates don’t do what they do just for the sake of hurting people, and they don’t do it just because they can. There is something in it for them—a way to turn a profit, to rake money in without actually having…
By now, most of us know that piracy is a huge issue—made all the more serious and complex by the advent of the Internet, and by the increasingly volatile nature of online file sharing and trading. The majority of us would likely agree that distributing a copyrighted work to third parties en masse is hardly…
Google is more than just the largest search engine in the world: It surely ranks as the largest and most powerful information gatekeeper in the world, giving access to untold fathoms of online materials. This is a prestigious position to occupy, and one that comes with great responsibility: It largely falls to Google to set…
