piracy

Piracy originally referred to criminal violence (such as trespassing and robbery) committed at sea, but today the term lends itself to an array of lawless acts, including copyright infringement, airplane hijacking, unregulated radio transmissions (pirate radio) and patent infringement. The term has also been used to refer to raids committed on land by paramilitary forces.

Traditional piracy at sea benefits from a romanticized image in contemporary popular culture, thanks to some picturesque characters such as Captain Hook, Long John Silver, and even the more recent Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates Of The Caribbean film series. Colorful language, a lust for hidden treasures, as well as the love of freedom and the open sea are some of the more common motifs to be encountered in pirate stories.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “piracy”

• in Music
  File Sharers Buy More Music Than Non-File Sharers
  New research suggests that file sharers buy more legal music than non file sharers
  by cmimanagers / on Oct 16, 2012
• in Technology
  Google Crushes Piracy by Burying Their Content Deeper Into Search Results
  Google hopes to tackle piracy with another new algorithm.
  by ash98 / on Aug 13, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  File Sharing and Copyright Math
  Entertainment Industry Wants Downloading Shutdown
  by Mozart99 / on Apr 22, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “piracy”

 

• Parent Punishes Kid for Triggering a “Six Strikes” Piracy Alert

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 768
  After years of negotiating and planning the “six strikes” copyright alert system finally went live in February . Three months have passed since, and today the overseeing Center for Copyright Information has published a status update. The group explains that everything is going according to plan and highlights ...
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• Driving Blind: Cthulhu, Piracy in Real Time and the Enlightenment

  
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  Ted Heller feels like he’s betraying someone, or something , every time he picks up his new e-reader. Maybe though he should consider more deeply the nature of this perceived betrayal before taking to the pages of Salon to write about it. What would George Orwell think about the Internet’s effect on the ...
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• What You Need to Know about Book Piracy

  
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  From Claire Ryan at The Raynfall Agency: Okay, we all know about this. Piracy, the great and terrifying force that’s destroying authors’ means to make a living on one hand, and getting their work in front of thousands of new readers on the other. There’s plenty of conflicting information out there. . . . . ...
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• Copy Protection is the Opposite of Copy Promotion (which we call “marketing”)

  
  Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That! — Authority: 137
  I’ve often thought that over-done efforts at copy protection kill the limited piracy that helps start the word of mouth about new content. Or they just make it too hard to use, and frustrated consumers walk away. David Pogue writes about Tor Books’ test where they dropped copy protection and saw no measurable ...
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• Police Raid School Teacher for Uploading History Book for Students

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 768
  While the online sharing of music has been widespread for close to a decade and a half, the sharing of books has only gathered real traction in the past few years. When it came to legal action to prevent sharing the music industry led the way but even now, book publishers – Wiley aside – seem generally ...
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• RapidShare lays off three quarters of its staff

  
  Music Ally — Authority: 149
  How much of online file-storage service RapidShares business was fuelled by piracy? Well, since implementing tough restrictions on its users uploads and downloads, the company has been struggling.
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• Kerala engineer claims creation of new ‘anti-piracy hardware’

  
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  Kerala engineer claims creation A Kerala-based software engineer claims to have come up with an anti-piracy device to check recording of movies in theatres using sophisticated mobile phones or handycams. Varghese Babu told IANS that the product, which has gone for patent processing, was developed after three years of ...
  3 days ago

• Somalia: Piracy Declining

  
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  Filed under: news , Piracy , Somalia , video
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• Navigating the Future of Private Maritime Security

  
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  Navigating the Future of Private Maritime Security By William H. Watson, President and COO, AdvanFort Thursday, May 09, 2013 William H. Watson, President and COO, AdvanFort Maritime piracy is both ageless as a threat as well as ductile in its dramatically changing nature both in and around the Indian ...
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• Weekend Roundup: Reading on cellphones in Africa

  
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  What news organizations are learning from their e-book efforts (Poynter Online) What’s left if B&N sells the Nook division to Microsoft? (The Passive Voice) A ‘novel’ idea for spreading literature in Africa: The cellphone (Christian Science Monitor) The e-book piracy debate, revisited (NYTimes.com) The ...
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• Online Piracy: The biggest stealers are by far the biggest spenders

  
  Erik Westlake dot Com — Authority: 162
  A newly-published report from Ofcom has claimed the 20 per cent of Brits responsible for the most online piracy are spending 300 per cent more on digital content from those who don’t illegally download files. The research, commissioned in 2012, studied the behaviours of internet users over the age of 12 in the UK ...
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• US Government Orders 3D Gun Templates to Be Removed From the Net…so Download Here.

  
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  The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. Impossible. The order to remove the template files for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. They were being hosted on MEGA. The US State Department wrote to the gun’s designer, Defense ...
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• The Drill Down 276: Through a Glass, Darkly (preview)

  
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  Google Glass gets skewered, tons of gaming news, FBI’s plan to wiretap web users, iOS 7 goes flat, Facebook & SMS lose millions of users, the world’s 1st 3D printed gun, and a man who quit the ‘Net for a year (and lived to tell about it)… See the full post here on Geeks of Doom Subscribe! The ...
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• The Drill Down 276: Through a Glass, Darkly

  
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  This week, SNL skewers Google Glass , lots of upcoming gaming news, the FBI’s plan to wiretap web users, iOS 7 is going flat, Facebook and SMS loses millions of users, the world’s first 3D printed gun, and a man who quit the internet for a year (and lived to tell about it) [...]
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• Piracy research once again shows biggest downloaders spend the most

  
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  As the global conversation surrounding file sharing and piracy continues, a new report showing the behavior of the most extreme downloaders adds a relevant but often missing piece of information — how much…
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• E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, May 9, 2013

  
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  1. “Fair use” takes center stage at Google Books appeal (PaidContent.org) 2. Ending the TOC conference, but still pushing tools of change for publishing (O’Reilly) 3. Microsoft mulling Nook Media LLC purchase for $1 billion (TechCrunch) 4. U.K. publishers hit book sales record for 2012 amid digital growth (The ...
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• Netflix A ‘Piracy Killer’? BitTorrent Takes Issue

  
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  Netflix as “piracy killer” may make sense on the surface, but BitTorrent has taken exception to some implications from comments made by company representatives last week connecting BitTorrent with piracy. The comments came in a Stuff interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos . When asked what ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to stop online piracy right now

  
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  You want to end piracy right now? Theres a simple way and it wont take  DRM, government intervention or draconian laws. Read my simple solution on FierceContentManagement. Photo Credit: CanStockPhoto
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• Record Labels and the JOBS Act

  
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  The largest providers of capital in the music business, the major record labels, have been devastated over the last decade by the disruption of their core competency: selling recorded music and investing profits into the development of new talent.  Global music sales have been contracting for over a decade, falling ...
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• “Free Music” from Spotify as DRM Hole Exploited by MP3-Ripping Chrome Extension

  
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  Spotify has one of the largest libraries of music at 20 million songs available to stream at any time. Free users have limited use of the library and have to hear ads, but subscribed users can listen ad-free as well as cache their playlists offline for playback when they aren’t connected to the internet as long as ...
  2 weeks ago

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