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[ NNSquad ] Three notable piracy-related items from TorrentFreak
Three notable piracy-related items from TorrentFreak U.S. Copyright Czar Questioned On Domain Seizures (video + text): http://j.mp/hzGFG5 Watch the U.S. Copyright Czar explain the critical importance to the U.S. of taking down blogs, and of the wonderful safeguards in place to prevent mistakes! Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns! http://j.mp/hSVung The music goes round and round and it comes out ... never. I'd love to be the lawyers with the billable hours on this recursive idiocy. Piracy vs. Lost Sales http://j.mp/fmgMWS Does every pirated copy represent a lost sale? Back in the heyday of phone phreaking, which as you know I only, uh, have, uh, indirect knowledge about, AT&T claimed that every phreaked call represented a potential chargeable call lost. But how many 18 year-olds were going to pay $3/minute to call the "speaking clock" in Sydney from L.A.? To argue that every pirated music file or movie actually represents a lost sale doesn't make sense. This doesn't make piracy right, of course. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://j.mp/laurenbuzz Quora: http://www.quora.com/Lauren-Weinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com