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April 15, 2013

Spain Tries to Keep Itself Off of USTR’s Watch List

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Each year, the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) puts out what it calls a "Special 301" report, a review of "the of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement in trading part

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DMCAForce
April 8, 2013

One Subject on Which Piracy Apologists Have a Point… To a Point

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In reading about the (inevitable) piracy of Netflix's popular original series House of Cards, and the yeezy replica evidently record-setting piracy of the third seasons premier of HBO's Game of Thrones, I'm struck b

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DMCAForce
March 18, 2013

New Study Says Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Digital Music Sales…. While Offering No Sales Data At All

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A new study published by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (part of the European Commission's "Joint Research Centre") asserts that "Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute t

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DMCAForce
March 15, 2013

Study Concludes That Megaupload Shutdown Boosted Movie Sales

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In a study published earlier this month, professors Brett Danaher (of Wellesley College's Department of Economics) and Michael D. Smith (from Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy an

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DMCAForce
March 6, 2013

FixCopyright.com – Sounds Good, But a Little Detail Would Be Nice

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Derek Khanna, a copyright reform activist who I've written about previously, has launched a new website, FixCopyright.com, as part of his advocacy campaign. As a staunch advocate of strong intellectual property rig

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DMCAForce
March 1, 2013

The Copyright Alert System, Consumer Attitudes and…Fascism?

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Well, that didn't take long. The Copyright Alert System has only been in place for a matter of days, and already some consumers (who do not appear to have received any notices) are already comparing it to the mecha

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DMCAForce
February 27, 2013

The Implicit Message Behind File-Sharing

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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 prov

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DMCAForce
February 8, 2013

Can Pressure on Major Brands Over Support of Piracy Sites Make a Difference?

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There's an encouraging, if modest, trend afoot in the ongoing battle against online piracy: rights-holders, recording artists, and those who support them are starting to make some noise of the sort that makes corpor

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DMCAForce
January 21, 2013

Piracy and the Entitlement Mindset

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In reading a bit about "Mega," the new site/service launched by alleged pirate Kim Dotcom, I did something that is really against my better judgment: I scrolled down and read through the comments posted in response

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DMCAForce
January 17, 2013

Carnegie Mellon Prof. Addresses ‘Piracy Myths’

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Speaking at the Digital Book World Conference in New York earlier this week, Carnegie Mellon University's Michael D. Smith addressed three myths common to discussions of illegal downloading, according to Media Bistr

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