I write quite a bit about the modern “pirate” as it relates to New Media. AdRants has highlights from a talk given by Brian Collins about branding and the original pirates:
“Back in 1748, if you had the misfortune of being a single bobbing ship at sea when a tattered vessel with a skull and crossbones [...]
TorrentFreak has a bunch of interesting comments from authors about the value of having their books “available” on bittorrent sites.
“More and more authors seem to recognize the power of BitTorrent as a means to generate more sales, and actually upload free copies onto BitTorrent themselves.
Best selling author Paulo Coelho posted several of his books on [...]
Last night I was at a great birthday dinner downstairs at the “chefs table” at Blue Ribbon. Lots of cool people there and I got into a chat with a guy who works for an eBooks publisher.
Our conversation started with the Kindle - an eReader that is promoted by Amazon and the first one to [...]
According to the GuardianUK:
“More than half of young people copy the songs on their hard drives to friends and even more swap CD copies, according to research that reveals the huge challenge home copying poses to a music industry already battling internet file-sharing.”
AND
“Overall, 95% of the 1,158 people surveyed had engaged in some form of [...]
Oh, irony, you sweet mistress, you. TorrentFreak (via The Australian) is reporting that hundreds of pirated movie files were found on the computers of an Australian Police IT unit!
“If the officers do go unpunished, it could create a favorable precedent for filesharers in South Australia. If police officers, who are expected to be held [...]
Earlier, I wrote about the fascinating “We Tell Stories” project from Penguin books, a wide-ranging experiment in the overlap between traditional writing and the internet experience.
The first project to launch is called “The 21 Steps” by Charles Cumming and it is based on the classic “The 39 Steps.”
CoolHunter snagged an interview with Cumming:
“It was written [...]
ArsTech has a very thoughtful response to a pretty hyperbolic article in the London Times about the threats of digital piracy on publishers and authors.
Not surprisingly, this industry is facing very similar problems to the music and film industry largely due to the fact that the key things they’ve done is to manufacture and distribute [...]
Matt “The Pirate’s Dilemma” Mason has weighed in on the debate that Billy Bragg got rolling in a big way last week in the NYT and well documented right here in this blog.
Matt brings a lot of perspective to the table:
“All the people at the extreme ends of both sides of this debate are wrong. [...]
Another brilliant post in TorrentFreak (via Oxford) regarding the roles pirates are playing and will be playing in the mainstream economy:
““Digital piracy has been claimed to endanger whole industries” said Ms Croxson. “A natural question to ask is: Why do some companies develop water-tight technology to safeguard their intellectual property when others appear more relaxed [...]
Over on ArsTech there is a great look at Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock, and his approach to game design and distribution.
“The way to make money in the world of PC gaming, according to Wardell, is to make sure many systems can play your games, while continuing to make them attractive. Find a market where [...]
