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Let's Drop this Insulting “Digital Piracy” Meme
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| For example, consider this email with the subject line “BSA Launches Faces of
| Piracy Campaign” (BSA = Business Software Alliance), reproduced on this blog
| post:
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| We've all been following the events of the past week of the pirates off the
| Horn of Africa. Piracy takes many forms, some more violent than others. I
| wanted to let you know that the Business Software Alliance is launching a
| new campaign today "Faces of Internet Piracy" that shows the real-life
| impact of software piracy--from hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines to
| jail time.
|
| This callous linking of life-threatening events off the coast of Africa, with
| digital copyright infringement, which doesn't even involve the loss of
| material objects, since perfect copies can be produced without affecting the
| original, is cynical in the extreme. It shows to what depths the BSA has sunk
| if it is able to equate the two.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2088&blogid=14
BSA Tries To Exploit Somali Piracy News In PR Campaign Against Software Sharing
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| We already wrote about how ridiculous it is to compare Somali high seas
| pirates with music, movie and software fans downloading an unauthorized copy
| of something off the internet -- and even the press is starting to question
| the wisdom of calling unauthorized file sharing "piracy." Yet, that hasn't
| stopped the BSA, masters of misleading through questionable stats from
| ramping up a marketing campaign that purposely tries to compare software file
| sharers with Somali pirates.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090414/0113354494.shtml
Related:
Updates of Sorts and Things to Watch Out For.
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| While there may have been the Enrons, Haliburtons, and other companies that
| members of We Are Change have to deal with, there are two main
| companies/groups that we have to deal with:
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| * Microsoft
| * The Business Software Alliance
|
| It’s a symbiotic relationship of sorts between the two. One is supposed to
| make sure that users have shelled out an arm and a leg for their copies of
| software, yet it is used by the other to blackmail these same users. For now
| though, let us focus on the Redmond, Washington software company. In Michael
| Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, there was a brief clip that allegedly showed a
| meeting of many companies who were talking about Iraq (second invasion of… at
| least it was implied to me anyway), and one of the names dropped: Microsoft.
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http://nixedblog.thenixedreport.com/?p=57
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