piracy in comment and analysis
Steve Ballmer Q&A: Microsoft CEO on security, piracy, licensing and the digital future
Comment Q: Despite digital rights management (DRM) technology, isn't piracy still rampant? Q: How do you see the threat to your licensing and pricing policy from Linux, piracy, price erosion and selling cheaper versions of cut-down Windows in some... [05 Oct 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.07.04
Round-Up However, the event was cunningly hi-jacked by the British Phonographic Industry who claimed it as a platform to trumpet the work being done to fight music piracy. But those MPs who still crazily thought they were only there to hear their peers... [16 Jul 2004]
Leader: Note to entertainment industry - get over it
Leader The movie industry claims piracy costs it about $3bn a year in lost sales. The entertainment industry has in the last few days suffered two set backs in its efforts to stop illegal copying of music and films. [22 Dec 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: MP3 shoplifting
Comment Digital content piracy needn't be about the internet. Peter Cochrane asks what's left for an industry that has lost control of distribution. Entirely by chance I am sat in a coffee shop of a book and music store in Toronto reading an article that... [03 Dec 2003]
Devil's Advocate: That is my software!
Comment Piracy became rife when copying no longer involved laborious writing by hand. Is the creation of software innovative enough to require legal protection? There's certainly a right to reasonable return but, says Martin Brampton, current copyright and... [02 Dec 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.10.03
Round-Up Unauthorised file-sharing and commercial piracy" were major factors in the fall, states the report. There's a problem with the Segway Human Transporter (SHT). The SHT is the personal transportation device controlled by a complex system of... [03 Oct 2003]
Software crime: Would you admit to an accidental breach?
Comment If you report this to the BSA you will put them onto the counterfeiter who supplied the software to you, undoubtedly helping them in their fight against piracy. Today the BSA urged users to confess to any breaches of software licensing in order to... [25 Sep 2003]
Why the punishment doesn't fit the high-tech crime
Comment The nine-year jail sentence today for the IT expert who masterminded a £2m credit card fraud from passengers who bought tickets for London's Heathrow Express rail link contrasts sharply with recent sentences seen for virus writers and software... [09 Sep 2003]
File-sharing takes off in West Bank refugee camp
Comment Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank, a new file-swapping service is daring record labels and movie studios to turn their piracy-hunting into an international incident. Dubbed Earthstation 5, the new file-swapping... [14 Aug 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.03
Round-Up Reader Stuart Charman wrote in an email: "This story gives me the mental picture of the average 'Joe' being told by studio bosses that if he doesn't appear in the anti-piracy advert he'll be picking up his P45? [25 Jul 2003]
Microsoft licensing row - is the customer always right...
Comment But at a time when the big software companies, backed by the anti-piracy police of the Business Software Alliance and the Federation Against Software Theft, are banging on about getting tough with companies who aren't licensed correctly it is... [23 Jul 2003]
Security the story of the day - again
Comment Others would point to a market where cracking down on wrongdoing - whether it be cracking, virus writing or piracy - is becoming more of a priority. A quick scan down the list of stories on silicon.com's inbox today shows something of a theme... [22 Jul 2003]
The Ovum View: DRM - protecting content and revenues
Comment Content providers claim to have suffered significant losses from online piracy. Protect operator revenues from sources from piracy Ovum senior analyst Michele MacKenzie sheds some light on DRM in wireless. [10 Jul 2003]
Digital music: Where the 'good guys' are the villains of the peace
Comment Email editorial@silicon.com and tell us why it should be that music piracy has been championed the way it has. Napster was breaking the law. MP3.com was breaking the law. Kazaa is breaking the law. So why do they get all the positive press while... [10 Jul 2003]
Software pirates: To jail or not to jail?
Comment Is it about time we took a hard line on piracy and used stiff sentencing as a deterrent? The handing out of stiffer, custodial sentences will send out a message to those pirates who think they can breeze through life getting fat on the spoils of... [04 Jul 2003]
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