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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• Police Blotter: His Face Fought the Law and the Law Won

  
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  Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them— sometimes comically stupid , but also potentially tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in ...
  6 days ago

• Buchrezension: Maritime Sicherheit

  
  Offiziere.ch — Authority: 127
  Man könnte meinen, dass die maritime Sicherheit für ein Binnenland wie die Schweiz keine Rolle spielt. Das ist falsch, wie auch die Diskussion einer schweizerischen Beteiligung an der Operation Atalanta vor einigen Jahren zeigte. Immerhin verfügt die Schweiz über sechs kommerzielle Reedereien , die im Mai ...
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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 ...
  6 days ago

• Canadian Police and Government Caught Pirating Movies and TV-Shows

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 768
  Over the past months we’ve discovered ‘pirates’ in the most unusual places, from the FBI , through major record labels and the U.S. Government to the Vatican . Inspired by these revelations the Canadian Pirate Party decided to take a look at the downloading habits of their local Government and police, ...
  1 week ago

• The Worlds Most Pirate-Infested Waters

  
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  Armed pirates stand over French hostages aboard the yacht Tanit in this undated handout picture released by the French Ministry of Defence April 11, 2009. REUTERS/ECPAD-French Ministry of Defence Crime At Sea: The Worlds Most Pirate-Infested Waters -- NBC News Like the Caribbean of old, the waters near ...
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• 5 Comical Ways that Video Games Fought Piracy

  
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  Game developers have tried to beat software piracy for years. In the beginning, games were based on the honor system. When some people proved to be less than honorable, developers painfully tried long registration keys. They tried dongles, Lens Lock and key generating from a thick game manual. All of these failed to ...
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• Survey Finds Streaming Responsible For 40% of European Web Traffic

  
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  While previous records near enough guarantee what over one hundred million people in Europe will be watching on TV tomorrow (18 May) evening, how the population of the continent spend their time online is a different question that may be a little more difficult to give a straight answer on, though the ‘Sandvine ...
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• Piracy: Somali Piracy: Gone for Good?

  
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  Source: ISNSomali Piracy: Gone for Good?Whats behind the recent decline in maritime piracy attacks off the Horn of Africa? Sonia Rothwell believes that military operations on land and at sea are starting to have the desired effect, as are more controversial measures developed by private companies.By Sonia ...
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• 3 Count: Principled Hearing

  
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  Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: Advocates Call for Legal Protections for Copyright Consumers First off today, Grant Gross at Tech Hive reports that yesterday marked the first hearing before the intellectual property subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee ...
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• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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