Posts Tagged ‘piracy’

Media futurist Greg Leonard on Le Copyright Francais May 13, 2009 1 Comment

Sometimes pictures are better than words. The French Assembly has voted to give the music and film industries the power to switch off the Internet access of anyone who they accuse of pirating copyrighted files. Media futurist Greg Leonard commented on it. Liberté, égalité, fraternité? Mais non!

Free download: The Pirate’s Dilemma April 20, 2009 No Comments

The Pirate’s Dilemma is a book on trends and changes in the way consumers, authors and the law deal with copyright and the sharing of (illegal) content. Is filesharing and downloading truly an infringement of the creator’s rights, or does it also stimulate creativity? From http://thepiratesdilemma.com/about-the-book:

How do you start a movement with a marker pen? [...]