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The Hanger Shop - Wii Modchips | DS Cards | Premodded Consoles | Wii DVD Drives
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All Hanger News : The Piracy Dilemma
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by Thomas Mennecke
Smaller businesses face tough questions when it comes to the bottom
line. Software costs money, and a lot of it. Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft
Office and Vista are rather expensive pieces of software. And it's not
like a business can just buy one copy and install it on every computer.
Typically, the license agreement only covers one copy for one machine.
For a business that has multiple computers, a shoestring budget, and a
family to feed, decisions have to be made.
It appears that
decision is to cut the software budget. The Federation Against Software
Theft, a UK firm which dedicates itself to promote legitimate use of
software, published a study
which found that 79% of business directors would be more likely to find
ways around legitimate licensing in times of economic distress.
The logic seems sound enough. If a business is struggling to make ends
meet, yet needs to install Office on several machines, the owner may be
tempted to bypass the necessary licensing.
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All Hanger News : MPAA Defeats TorrentSpy
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A Los Angeles Federal court has rendered a $110 million judgment
against Valence Media, the company which operates the now defunct
TorrentSpy. This judgment represents the culmination of a lengthy
decline for TorrentSpy, which was slowly strangled to death by the
movie industry.
“This substantial money judgment sends a strong
message about the illegality of these sites,” said Dan Glickman,
Chairman and CEO of the MPAA. “The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear
victory for the studios and demonstrates that such pirate sites will
not be allowed to continue to operate without facing relentless
litigation by copyright holders.”
Unlike many other BitTorrent websites such as The Pirate Bay or
isoHunt, TorrentSpy was never quite able to shake off the MPAA's legal
pursuit. Much like BitTorrent, Inc., TorrentSpy attempted many avenues
of legitimacy. This included creating a program which allowed copyright
holders to remove indexed torrents, and a policy of blocking US search
requests. None of this seemed to matter, where in the US, the political
climate is notoriously hostile to P2P development - the exception being
BitTorrent, Inc.
According to the judgment posted on PACER, an injunction was also
ordered against TorrentSpy. Interestingly, Valence Media can retain
possession of the site, however is barred from indexing copyrighted
works in the future.
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All Hanger News : RIAA Wants ISPs to Act on Piracy
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The RIAA's Mitch Bainwol is back on Capitol Hill, and this time, he's
not touting how online piracy has been contained. Actually, quite the
contrary. If there was a music industry equivalent of an SOS, today's
testimony would be it. Authorized downloads are way down, revenue has
plummeted, and file-sharing networks seem impervious to just about
anything thrown at it.
In general, file-sharers typically render
a high degree of skepticism whenever the music industry describes the
piracy situation in statistical detail. However, Mr. Bainwol's
description today is within the realm of acceptability. Consider the
following numbers testified today by Mr. Bainwol:
• During the past two years, music acquisition has jumped 15%. During the
same two year period, the share of legal acquisition of music has
plummeted from 56% to 42% - now less than half of the music is acquired
legally.
• In 1999, the recorded music industry had $14.6 billion in revenues –
all from physical sales. By 2007, revenues had dropped to $10.4
billion, of which only $8 billion was from physical sales and $2.4
billion of this was from digital sales.
• In 2000, the ten top-selling albums in the United States sold a total
of 60 million units. Last year, they totaled just 25 million, less than
half of the 2000 sales.
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