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Piracy as a core business strategy
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| Piracy is a way to drive adoption. Obviously, piracy only works if someone
| cares about your product in the first place (otherwise, why would they bother
| stealing it?). But perhaps it's a compelling strategy for some? It certainly
| seems to work for Microsoft in emerging markets like China....
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10028027-16.html
UK Band Admits It's 'Utterly Dependent' On Piracy
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| At some point, it won't make sense to post these sorts of examples any more
| because it will just be common sense that bands can and do benefit from
| so-called "piracy," but every time we post one of these stories, we get
| people complaining that this couldn't possibly work for others.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080826/2227062107.shtml
McKinnon loses European appeal
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| IT LOOKS LIKE 'Nasa Hacker' Gary McKinnon will be extradited to the US to
| face computer abuse and cyber-terrorism charges, after the European Court of
| Human Rights denied his appeal this morning.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/28/mckinnon-loses-european-appeal
Recent:
Elsevier steals, then copyrights other people's free stuff
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| Reed Elsevier caught copying my content without my permission:
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| I was not asked for, and did not give, permission for my work to appear
| on that page, much less in that format. Needless to say, I felt a little
| slighted.
|
| The website in question appears to be a custom version of the LexisNexis
| search engine. This particular version appears to be Elsevier's own
| custom version, intended for internal use. I don't have conclusive proof
| of that, but the title bar at the top of the page reads, "Elsevier
| Corporate", and the person who accessed my blog from that page had an IP
| address that's registered to MD Consult, which is an Elsevier subsidiary.
| My guess is that Elsevier's keeping track of news articles and blog posts
| that mention them, along with the context in which they're mentioned.
|
| [...]
|
| Reed Elsevier Is Stealing My Words:
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| I received an email from ScienceBlogling Mike Dunford that Reed Elsevier
| had excerpted one of my posts. No problem there--I like it when people
| read my stuff....except for one thing:
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| The fuckers copyrighted my words.
|
| Copyright violation?:
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| Apparently, publishing companies don't always get permission for the
| materials they use, either. Mike Dunford caught Reed Elsevier copying his
| content without permission (from Stephen Downes).
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http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/08/elsevier_steals_then_copyright.php
Related:
Look for the silver lining
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| Clamping down too hard on pirates may also encourage people to switch to
| free, open-source alternatives. “It’s easier for our software to compete with
| Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not,” Microsoft’s chairman, Bill
| Gates, told Fortune magazine last year.
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http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11750492
Microsoft Happy with the Evolution of Windows Vista Piracy
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| But the truth is that Microsoft is happy with the way Windows Vista
| piracy is evolving. Is there a catch to this? No. The fact of the
| matter is that Windows Vista has delivered a heavy blow to
| software counterfeiters. The reason for this is the new Windows
| Genuine Advantage security mechanism integrated into the
| operating system.
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| You may not notice this on the surface. On the surface, the
| Internet is crawling with Windows Vista cracks, hacks and
| workarounds. On the surface, every Windows Vista edition has
| been cracked and is available for download via peer-to-peer
| networks. But this is not the true extent of Windows Vista piracy.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Happy-with-the-Evolution-of-Windows-Vista-Piracy-50577.shtml
Microsoft seals its Windows and opens the door to Linux
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| Now comes the really interesting question. With Vista's activation
| technology, Microsoft has the power to stamp out piracy everywhere. But
| will it choose to do so everywhere? After all, if folks in China or
| Thailand or Ethiopia have to pay for Vista, they won't be able to run
| it because they won't be able to afford the licence fee. In which case
| they may finally wake up to the attractions of free software such as
| Linux - and it's easy to imagine what that will do to Microsoft's
| plans for world domination.
|
| It's a delicious prospect: Microsoft impaling itself on the horns
| of a dilemma it has created for itself. Roll on Thursday.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1956941,00.html
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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