If you have read any of the coverage surrounding a recently published study headed up by Anders Drachen of Aalborg University called “Distribution of Digital Games via BitTorrent” then one point you have had hammered into your head by now is that the study concludes that previous estimates concerning the amount of game piracy taking…
This week, the Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary began its “comprehensive review” of U.S. copyright law, kicking things off with a hearing that included testimony from a handful of legal scholars and attorneys whose views on copyright are quite divergent. Witnesses for the subcommittee’s first hearing included…
I suppose it should come as no surprise that Amelia Andersdotter, a member of Sweden’s Pirate Party and the youngest member of the European Parliament, is hostile to the very idea of a music industry, but comments attributed to her yesterday by The Independent still made my jaw drop a bit. On a visit to…
When it comes to getting people to really internalize a concept, it’s often better to show, rather than tell. Take the harm done to game developers by online piracy of their creations, for example. You can spend all day writing a wall of text designed to explain how widespread piracy and readily available cracks of…
