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Piracy and the Evolution of Entertainment Marketing

Several months ago, a nice post was written by a Green Options blogger, supporting purchasing music on-line strictly for environmental reasons. I will take this further, also including software and movies and other reasons for which buying such things on disks should be dropped in favor of other means, means which wouldn’t even require servers […]

Blind Corporate Greed…

I’m looking at a small piece of news from a newspaper from here. It says that Microsoft demands more investments from Asian governments in order to curb piracy and admits that constant effort over a few decades will be needed before any significant progress will be made. It also says that the programs that resulted […]

Piracy

Somebody recently brought up the topic and I always start ranting when this happens, so here goes. I’m speaking mainly of software piracy, but there is also a little something on music and movies at the end. As a side note, I currently have more installed programs that are actually bought than not, plus freeware […]