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The Lost Joy of Music Piracy: WhatCD, Oink, and Spotify | Pigeons and Planes

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:28:54 +0000

At its core, What.CD was much more than a torrent tracker—it was a community of dedicated music fans volunteering their time, effort, and knowledge to create a labor of love. While the internet has opened up new doors for musicians, the increasing corporatization and algorithmic takeover of online spaces has done irreparable damage to organic music discovery and independent communities. Rather than bringing about the financial stability that was supposedly impeded by piracy, the recording industry has offered meager artist payouts and a product with a sterilized user interface. Nearly ten years since their unexpected goodbye, the magical feeling of logging in to What.CD has yet to be replicated by any streaming service. Though my days of stealing music are well in the past, it’s clear that musicians are still being stolen from.

Tags: #bittorrent #music #piracy #streaming

The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library - Falkvinge on Infopolicy

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:50:40 +0000

It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive, and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency.

Tags: #bittorrent #copyfight #imported:pinboard #libraries #piracy #piratebay

The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library - Falkvinge on Infopolicy

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:50:40 +0000

Tags: #bittorrent #copyfight #libraries #piracy #piratebay

Skull & Crossbones Vandalize Studio Games » Game Maker Blog

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:21:58 +0000

So, because DRM never goes wrong, let's just vandalize the content created by the purchasers of our software. Oh wait, we meant to do that to the pirates. Oh well.

Tags: #drm #gaming #imported:pinboard #piracy #to:fb

Skull & Crossbones Vandalize Studio Games » Game Maker Blog

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:21:58 +0000

So, because DRM never goes wrong, let's just vandalize the content created by the purchasers of our software. Oh wait, we meant to do that to the pirates. Oh well.

Tags: #drm #gaming #piracy #to:fb

The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record | TorrentFreak

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:24:58 +0000

Despite the widespread availability of pirated releases, The Avengers just scored a record-breaking $200 million opening weekend at the box office. While some are baffled to see that piracy failed to crush the movie’s profits, it’s really not that surprising. Claiming a camcorded copy of a movie seriously impacts box office attendance is the same as arguing that concert bootlegs stop people from seeing artists on stage.

Tags: #avengers #copyfight #imported:pinboard #movies #piracy #to:fb

The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record | TorrentFreak

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:24:58 +0000

Tags: #avengers #copyfight #movies #piracy #to:fb

Piracy problems? US copyright industries show terrific health

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:59:03 +0000

"Things are going so "badly" that a major new report commissioned by copyright holders says that these "consistently positive trends solidify the status of the copyright industries as a key engine of growth for the US economy as a whole.""

Tags: #copyfight #piracy

Piracy and Copyright Challenges in 1841 Mirror Those of Today

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:48:32 +0000

Tags: #copyfight #copyright #piracy

All-You-Can-Stream Music Services Reduce Piracy, Says Study

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:45:00 +0000

Tags: #copyfight #music #piracy

If you are a pirate, this is what you get... but if you are a PAYING CUSTOMER, this is what you get

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:35:22 +0000

Tags: #copyfight #drm #dvd #funny #movies #mpaa #piracy #riaa

Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:42:12 +0000

Damn - I had this idea for use on my own work, if I ever got around to self-publishing. "Amazon's newly-patented System and Method for Marking Content, which calls for 'programmatically substituting synonyms into distributed text content,' including 'books, short stories, product reviews, book or movie reviews, news articles, editorial articles, technical papers, scholastic papers, and so on' in an effort to uniquely identify customers who redistribute material. "

Tags: #amazon #patents #piracy #writing

Sony Pictures CEO: The Internet Is Still Bad | Techdirt

Wed, 27 May 2009 23:18:25 +0000

"A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period. Plenty of online sites (including ours) took him to task for that, wondering how one gets to be the CEO of a major content company without understanding the internet. Today, Lynton hit back at critics -- not by saying he was quoted out of context or misunderstood, but by standing behind the statement and adding some gems to it as well. Let's take a look..."

Tags: #content #copyfight #culture #drm #freedom #internet #p2p #piracy #sony

Why (most) authors and publishers need not fear online piracy

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:09:53 +0000

"Given the difficulty of breaking into print in the traditional way, the Internet looks to many aspiring authors like a powerful new way to distribute content and find an audience; it has promise, not peril."

Tags: #marketing #piracy #publishing #writing

Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing - Times Online

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:34:26 +0000

"Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales"

Tags: #books #ohnoes #piracy #writing