Tag: piracy

Dear Hollywood: If illegal downloads hurt your industry, Avengers should have flopped

Dear Hollywood: If illegal downloads hurt your industry, Avengers should have flopped

July 2, 2022

The math is pretty straight forward. It was likely the most widely-downloaded camcorder recording of a movie ever. Following the...

Piracy cut in half in France, yet music and movie revenues fell

Piracy cut in half in France, yet music and movie revenues fell

March 31, 2012

France made waves in the P2P industry by implementing a controversial graduated response program in 2010 that was designed to...

The cost of piracy

The cost of piracy

March 19, 2012

One of the most compelling reasons for the rise in piracy over the past decade is the cost. We have...

Everything You Know About Piracy is Wrong

Everything You Know About Piracy is Wrong

March 30, 2011

Piracy has become part and parcel of discussions about media and the internet. And everywhere in online discussion, from the...

BitTorrent’s Wave Becomes a Tsunami with 100 Million Active Users

BitTorrent’s Wave Becomes a Tsunami with 100 Million Active Users

January 3, 2011

Dependent entirely on how you feel about piracy, it will either tickle you previously undefined shades of pink or break...

Halloween’s Most Popular Costume? Pirates!

Halloween’s Most Popular Costume? Pirates!

October 26, 2010

Halloween is approaching, and boy do we have a treat for you. It appears that not only are pirates the...

How The MPAA Is Using The Law To Protect Its Business Model

How The MPAA Is Using The Law To Protect Its Business Model

October 2, 2010

In what appears to be another shocking attempt to constrain and limit the functioning of the internet, US lawmakers are...

UK ISPs Profit From Invading Customer Privacy

UK ISPs Profit From Invading Customer Privacy

September 28, 2010

ISPs in the United Kingdom are making money from the process of anti-piracy groups taking legal action against copyright infringing...

This Time, The Porn Watches You

This Time, The Porn Watches You

September 27, 2010

Porn is really easy to get, isn't it? Porn has always been the internet's biggest business, but most of us...

Google Pitching Pay-Per-View – And Maybe This Time It’ll Work

Google Pitching Pay-Per-View – And Maybe This Time It’ll Work

August 30, 2010

So Google is pitching a YouTube pay-per-view service to Hollywood studios that would enable video rentals for five bucks a...

Movie Studios Unite To Solve A Common Problem

Movie Studios Unite To Solve A Common Problem

August 27, 2010

Two big studios have joined forces to tackle a problem facing the industry. Which is great news, except they're working...

Pink Floyd? More Like… Like… Pink… GONE… Whatever.

Pink Floyd? More Like… Like… Pink… GONE… Whatever.

August 16, 2010

If you're looking for iTunes, Amazon, or other digital releases of Pink Floyd's material this month, you'll be appalled and...