Thanks to new research conducted by Spotify, online piracy soars after music festivals. The document titled, “Adventures in the Netherlands” showcases Gers Pardoel and Racoon who both played at the Stoppelhaene Festival in late August of last year. Neither artist had experienced a spike in illegal downloads until the first day of the festival. Both…
Over on Forbes.com, the last week has seen the publication of two opposing posts on the air max 97 pas cher subject of copyright law and the place of the same in the context of the American economy and public policy. First, there was Gary Shapiro, the CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, who opined…
Synchronicity is a funny thing. This morning, in deliberating what topic I should take up next on this blog, a question occurred to me: Why are so many advocates of unfettered file-sharing and/or online piracy also clearly outraged by acts of plagiarism? As it happens, science fiction author/blogger Cory Doctorow provided a pretty solid answer…
Earlier this week, I sent a link to my previous post on this subject to an old friend of mine. Once upon a time, we were both in local rock bands and fancied ourselves to be future professional musicians. These days, he has a pretty good job, makes a nice living, has a couple of…
