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more about #piracy more comments → bonedog73: I don't believe surveys nor statistics....they're all BS made up to get people to do or think something they wouldnt normally. Nobody actually knows w... more » fender7083: I guess I don't fit in this survey. I haven't bought a song in four years. The same with movies, game, software. They probably just said this to make ... more » elementary: How could anyone see this simple statistic and draw the conclusion that piracy spurs sales? It's just as likely that music's biggest consumers are mo... more » Benguin: Funny how this seems to work with music, but not software. I wonder what the statistics are like for movies? #torrents more » AmphetamineCrown: Anyone have a link to the actual study results? I'm intrigued, 'cos I kind of think the conclusion being read into it isn't exactly what people think... more » Lizard_King: I generally purchase about 100 CDs a year, about 20 songs via iTunes/Amazon, and torrent 2-3 songs per year, songs I can find nowhere else - songs I w... more » Claytons: How much more music, if any, would these music fanatics buy if they couldn't steal? This question should be answered, cause you can rest assured it's... more » frigg: It's also worth mentioning that even though people who download music illegally buy the most music, the bigger picture - the one that musicians who ma... more » lxgon: i will gladly play you tuesday for a songburger today. most pirating is re-acquiring cd music that was stolen out of your car years ago.... at leas... more » Kaiser-Machead: It really makes sense, because torrenting is one of the only really good ways to dabble in an entire album before deciding if you really want it. I've... more » -
#piracy
It's Still True: Music Pirates Buy More Music
We've been here before, so no long post necessary, but it's worth mentioning, again, that illegal downloaders, the alleged scourge of the music industry, are really the ones who buy the most music. More » -
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This Movie Theater Tells It How It Is
Nothing shames internet pirates like internet memes turned real. [Blame it on the Voices via The Daily What] -
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Movie Theaters Will Fry Us All with Infrared to Stop Pirates
You can't shoot a film pirate with bullets, but IR light is just fine. More » -
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µTorrent iPhone App Rejected, Heads Over to Cydia
µMonitor is little iPhone app that lets you remotely control µTorrent back at your computer. But like Transmission's Drivetrain app, it's been banned by Apple on anti-piracy grounds. Usefully, however: Jailbreakers can still pick it up via Cydia. More » -
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Pirate Bay Unplugged By Swedish Court (Already Back Again, Sorta)
Like a T-1000 that just won't die, the Pirate Bay simply jumped servers after its ISP pulled the plug yesterday. Update: But the site bounced back (after some ups-and-downs overnight), and here's an excerpt from their defiant (and funny) response: More » -
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Surprise! The Pirate Bay's Buyers Are Extremely Shady
Heroically snatched from near-death by a mysterious, benevolent gaming company, the Pirate Bay had a rosy future laid out ahead of it. But hey, that company? They're turning out to be kind of rotten, and possibly fraudulent. More » -
#riaa
Second Degree Murder and Six Other Crimes Cheaper than Pirating Music
I'm outraged that the Obama administration is supporting the RIAA on the case against Jammie Thomas, a single mother of four who has to pay them $1.92 million for downloading songs. That's more expensive than murder and six other crimes: More » -
#digitalmusic
Greg Kot: The Music Industry Caused Piracy, and iTunes Isn't the Way Out
Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and others, wrote a book called Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. In a recent podcast interview, he enumerates the precise downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn't their savior. More » -
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Student Forced to Pay $675,000 to RIAA for Sharing 30 Songs
Joel Tenenbaum admitted to sharing 30 songs with Kazaa back in 2004 (Kazaa! So quaint!) and was originally fined $150,000 per song. He worked that down to "only" $22,500 per song, but that's still $675,000 in total. More » -
#music
Video, and Universal Music, Killed the Radio Star
How's this for irony: "Video Killed the Radio Star," released in 1979 by The Buggles, is about how TV (MTV in particular) would kill radio. And now, 30 years later, Universal has disabled embedding the YouTube video. More » -
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Video Piracy Was Big Business In 1979
Back in the day, new fangled VHS technology opened up a world of piracy and paranoia that we are abundantly familiar with today. The only difference was that many pirates were making big, big bucks. More » -
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No Surprise: Hollywood Doesn't Understand Where Pirated Movies Come From
Cory Doctorow has a piece in The Guardian explaining why it's awfully dumb for a theater to confiscate cellphones at a preview screening: Nobody's pirating movies with a cellphone, and real leaks come from inside the industry. More » -
#thepiratebay
Is the Pirate Bay Actually Dead?
Your worst fears about The Pirate Bay acquisition might be coming true: Peter Sunde told Torrent Freak that they are indeed closing down TPB's tracker and decentralizing to the point listed torrents won't be hosted on the site anymore. More » -
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RIAA Member Settles Suit After Defendant Proves She Did Even Not Own a Computer
RIAA member Universal Music Group was forced to settle a piracy suit it had brought against Mavis Roy after suffering a bit of a setback in their prosecution: Mavis Roy did not own a computer when UMG first brought suit. More » -
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Pirate Bay Retrial Denied After Judge Cleared Of Bias Accusations
It looks as though The Pirate Bay will have to hope for the best on appeal now that a Swedish court ruled that the judge's membership with two pro-copyright organizations does not constitute bias. More » -
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Man Sent to Jail For Six Months For Pirating, Uh, The Love Guru
This is embarassing. Jack Yates has been sentenced to six months in jail for pirating the horrible Mike Meyers movie The Love Guru. It might have been worth it for Star Trek, but come on, The Love Guru? More » -
#music
Universal and Virgin Offering Unlimited DRM-Free MP3s For Flat Monthly Rate
British cable operator Virgin Media is set to offer up an unlimited music download subscription program with Universal that would give you access to DRM-free MP3s as long as you pay a set monthly fee. More » -
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Danger Mouse's Next Album Will Be A Blank CD-R
Danger Mouse, the amazing mashup artist, producer, and half of Gnarls Barkley, is unable to release his newest album due to legal battles with his label, so he's embracing piracy to get his music heard. More » -
#thepiratebay
Pirate Bay Founders Plan a DDo$ Attack on the IFPI
After the Pirate Bay founders were fined $3.5 million, they swore they wouldn't cough up a single cent. Instead, they've come up with a DDo$ plan of attack that'll cost the IFPI instead of themselves. More » -
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An iPhone App Developer's Take on Piracy: Work With Pirates, Not Against Them
The creator of iCombat weighed in with his thoughts on newly-popular piracy of iPhone apps with an interesting conclusion: It's not worth the trouble to police the pirates, and they might even prove helpful. More » -
#myheadhurts
This Is How You Record a TV With a Camcorder So You're Just an MPAA Toolbag, Not a Pirate
No clever invective needed: It's an instructional video from the MPAA showing how to record a TV screen for classroom clips, instead of ripping a DVD. I think they really mean it, too. =( [BoingBoing] -
#windows7
Windows 7 Will Annoy Pirates Even Less Than Vista
Microsoft really wants to make Windows 7 the least offensive OS ever. Case in point: They've made the little dialog box that pesters you into activating Windows less annoying. More » -
#piracy
The New Blockbuster: Godawful Wolverine Downloaded Over 4 Million Times
I saw Wolverine in theaters. I paid $8 for my ticket and $5 for popcorn, heavy on the heart attack sauce. But I still don't know why 4 million people downloaded that piece of poo. More » -
#movies
Steven Soderbergh's Girlfriend Experience Released to Amazon Before Theaters
Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh's new movie breaks some major Hollywood rules, and not just because it stars porn actress Sasha Grey. It's also available now on Amazon a full 3 weeks before it hits theaters. More » -
#questionoftheday
Has Piracy Made You More or Less Interested In The Wolverine Movie?
As you know, a rough version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked online. Starting today, we will learn if it ended up helping or hurting the film. How will it affect your weekend plans? More » -
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Swedish Pirate Party Expected to Win (Not Plunder) a Seat in E.U. Parliament
It looks like Europe is just as taken with the Pirate Party as we at Giz are, because a recent electoral poll shows them with enough votes to secure a seat in the E.U. Parliament. More » -
#piratewindows7
Pirated Copies of Windows 7 Will Still Get Windows Updates
Conficker spread via PCs that weren't updated with security patches, and not wanting to be at fault for worldwide infections, Microsoft is going to supply security updates to pirated copies of Windows 7. [Maximum PC] -
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Biden Tells MPAA Obama's Intellectual Property Czar Will Be 'Right'
At a lobbying dinner hosted by the MPAA, Vice President Joe Biden chastised piracy as "pure theft" and assured the MPAA that President Obama's administration will find the right person for the intellectual property czar. More » -
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This About Sums Up the Entertainment Industry's Pirate Bay 'Victory'
Enjoy feeling like you're making progress while you can, suits. It won't last too long. [alt1040] -
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Pirate Bay Judge Linked With Copyright Lobby, Faces Accusations of Bias
Tomas Norström, the judge who sentenced the Pirate Bay Four, was recently outed as a member of two copyright advocacy organizations, prompting rumblings about a mistrial. More » -
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The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record Companies, Studios
Demonstrating how futile the war against Pirate Bay really is, someone has created The Pirate Google bay: A Google custom search dedicated to find torrent files. I can't wait for the industry to sue Google. More » -
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The Pirate Bay Founders Issue Post-Verdict Statement: "The Site Will Live On!"
Though The Pirate Bay suffered a defeat last week, the founders' latest statement is anything but defeated. They've started the years-long appeals process, and urge TPB users to download and seed as much as possible. More » -
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Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music Online than Non-Pirates
A study from the BI Norwegian School of Management has found that those who download free music from services like BitTorrent are also the biggest legitimate consumers of downloadable music. More » -
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Hundreds Picket Pirate Bay Verdict In Best-Costumed Political Protest Ever
In Sweden, hundreds of young people are dressing as pirates and waving the Jolly Roger flag in protest of the guilty verdict handed down to the Pirate Bay's siterunners. Sweden gets the best protests. More » -
#tipoftheday
If You Publicly Proclaim You're Going to Pirate a Movie, You Will Get Free Tickets to It
I have the feeling Miramax is sending the wrong message here: After bemoaning the lack of an Adventureland torrent on Twitter, Amanda got a vaguely threatening reply from MiramaxFilms, which then offered her free tickets. More » -
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France Slaps Down Proposed Anti-Piracy Bill
A plan to allow record companies to monitor internet traffic in France for piracy and shut down repeat offenders has been killed. Sweet. More » -
#idiocy
AP Threatens to Sue AP Affiliate for Embedding Official AP YouTube Vids
I think the AP needs to hire an internet consultant. Because it's clearly run by people who have absolutely no idea how the internet works. How else can one explain their behavior? More » -
#thepiratebay
The Pirate Bay's Ipredator Provides Safe, Anonymous Protection From the Law for $6
The Pirate Bay's new IP-masking anonymity service for paranoid pirates—Ipredator, whose name also plays off Sweden's new IPRED anti-piracy law—already has over 100,000 sign-ups. More » -
#pirates
First American-Crewed Container Ship Hijacked by Somali Pirates
The Maersk Alabama, was captured last night off the Somali coast after a five-hour showdown with as many as three pirate skiffs. The ship was filled with relief aid for Kenya, and was headed toward the port of Mombasa. It is the sixth ship to be commandeered in recent days. More » -
#movies
How to Create a Blockbuster Movie in Today's World: Leak It to BitTorrent
Wolverine is guaranteed to be a bag of trash with claws carried by Ryan Reynolds. Which is why, ironically, getting leaked to BitTorrent sans special effects is the best thing that could've happened to it. More »
