Piracy

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I gotta give these guys the credit that's due:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/27/business/nec.php

Not only did they fake the NEC products........they faked the entire company.

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M$ says that piracy is bad......

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microso ... -microsoft

.....but if you're going to do, pirate a M$ product.

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Behind the doors of an anti-piracy firm:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture ... fender.ars

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I gotta give the Pirate Bay this--they've got balls:

http://thepiratebay.org/blog/86

They sue all of the media firms for attacking their trackers. Yes, a P2P site is suing the media outlets they distribute.

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The pr0n industry wades into the battle about the Pirate Bay:

http://torrentfreak.com/porn-industry-i ... ia-070924/

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The Pirate Bay just got served their legal papers:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... e-bay.html

I think there going to just try and bury them in legal fees. For example:

According to Sunde, he and the other potential codefendants just received over 4,000 pages of material related to the investigation from the prosecutors. "He doesn't want us to have enough time to even read through the material. To compare: the second-biggest murder case in Sweden had 1,500 pages of documentation."

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China begins to combat their piracy:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10377

Uh..........*cough*bull$hit*cough*

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End to gaming piracy?

http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/05/26/153222.shtml

I use one of those USB dongles for Leica Geo Office and it's definitely a pain in the rear.

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CEO of id, Todd Hollenshead, had this to say about piracy:

http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/08/23/1636202.shtml

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/h ... k-part-one

"...I think that there's been this dirty little secret among hardware manufacturers, which is that the perception of free content — even if you're supposed to pay for it on PCs — is some sort hidden benefit that you get when you buy a PC, like a right to download music for free or a right to download pirated movies and games. ...And I think that just based on their actions...what they say is one thing, but what they do is another. When it comes into debates about whether peer-to-peer file-sharing networks that by-and-large have the vast majority, I'm talking 99 per cent of the content is illicitly trading copyrighted property, they'll come out on the side of the 1 per cent of the user doing it for legitimate benefit."

I think he's right. The quote from Seagate somewhat backs it up:

"Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."

http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/30/magazin ... e.fortune/

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France employs 3 strikes rule:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/11/02/1634217.shtml

3 times you're caught file sharing and your ISP cuts you for a year.

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Top 10 pirated games of 2008:

http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pir ... 08-081204/

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Video game piracy examined rather in-depth:

http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html

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Map of torrent users around the world:

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02 ... te-bay.ars

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Canadians are evil:

http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/ ... atch-list/


At least Obama is supporting the actors who helped get him into office

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Company releases their own game on the torrents sites to increase its marketing:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/r ... rent-sites