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Posts Tagged ‘Copyright

The Pirate Bay Trial Day 4 and 5: Where are the Software Companies?

Posted by: Geries Handal on: February 20, 2009

The question I have been asking myself is “where are the software companies, whose cracked software can be found on the p2p networks?”. Software companies figure out long ago, that they can fight these phenomenon. Slowly, they had changed, now big companies offer basic free versions of their products, understanding that $$$ is “Business to [...]

Day two of The Pirate Bay Trial: lessons and other stuff

Posted by: Geries Handal on: February 18, 2009

Day two of the TBP is on the books and the big news of the day: 50% of the charges where dropped. Although that may a headline, there is more substance on the sidelines. For example, the comments on twitter are hilarious, smart and interesting. Unfortunately I didn’t flag them or save them, however if [...]

The themes of the Sweden – U.S. Entrepreneurial Forum 2009 are:

Peer to Peer Technologies
Copyright Laws
New Business models for the Music, Movies and any industry that complains about Peer to Peer networks.

If you guessed that this is not true, then you are right. Yes, it may only happened in my day dreams, however if my day [...]

Copyrights are Boring and Copying is Fun

Posted by: Geries Handal on: September 10, 2008

Reading “The Longtail Blog”, I found myself reading about copyright and free business models. Anderson (the blogs author) makes reference to a paper where the author suggests 14 business models for a world without effective copyright. I didn’t finish reading the paper, simply because copyright its just plain boring or being law related makes it [...]


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