During a recent raid on a wholesale centre in Guangzhou city, the capital of China 's Guangdong province, a large quantity of fake eggs was seized. Their wholesale price is 0.15 yuan (S$0.03) each - half the price of a real egg. Consumers have a hard time telling a genuine egg from a fake one. This is good news for unscrupulous entrepreneurs, who are even conducting three-day courses in the produc
Utter sheer amazement, the sad part is that it is perfectly true, the music industry is all over radio right now to pay royalties for the first time ever; saying not to pay the artists for air time is tantamount to piracy.
The interesting part, read the wired story here, is that while Rome burns [...]
Rather a bold move from Culture Minister Christine Albanel:The legislation would set up a new administrative body that would receive complaints from the music and film industry and track down offenders through Internet service providers. An e-mail warning would be sent to suspected downloaders followed by a registered letter. After two strikes, offenders would risk losing their Internet subscript
Canada, one of the shining lights in the copyright and intellectual property world, has a shadow approaching that may dim that for all. The name of that shadow? Bill c-61, which was formally introduced by Industry minister Jim Prentice an hour or two ago. One of the ‘highlights’ is the abolition of court’s flexibility in [...]
Microsoft’s online validation tools designed as anti-piracy mechanisms are increasingly applauded by the company for contributing to identify pirates of its software products. The Redmond giant has made available both the Windows
Genuine Advantage (WGA) and the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) to protect its flag-ship products, the Windows platform and the Office System. [...]
Maybe the music industries issues are not all about piracy, but also a secondary confluence that we have heard of but did not really think about. The Motley Fool though comes wading into the RIAA and its minions against everyone on the planet with an interesting take on things.
Maybe it is not piracy that [...]
This Sunday, the Swedish Left Party voted in favor of a motion calling for the legalization of sharing copyrighted files for personal use. The party, which currently holds 22 seats in the Swedish parliament, sees piracy as something positive, much like public libraries.
In an interview with Next-Gen Crytek Engine Business Manager Harald Deeley has confirmed that they will be keeping the new Crysis content, "Warhead" a PC exclusive but will no longer be creating PC exclusive games. Piracy became a major concern for Crytek when sales of their triple-A title Crysis suffered severely, with torrent downloads of the game going through the roof. I don't blame Crytek one
HONG KONG (AP) - Actor Jackie Chan says his Segway dealership here is doing well, though costs are high because the manufacturer won't let him assemble the battery-powered scooters in China for fear of piracy.[...] Read more!
The music business will end meng! A recent article on Wired Magazine reveals that a 25 year old Brooklyn dude was fined for $250,000 and sentenced to upto 5 years in jail for sharing music. What the Friduck is this world coming to?RIAA Wins Case, ExtravaGangsta Radio,
Last year, the record industry won a major battle when a jury found Jammie Thomas liable for piracy for making tracks available on Kazaa. This was the the first case against an alleged file-sharer to go to trial, and the outcome made headlines and bolstered the RIAA's fight against it's customers.
But now, the federal district court judge who presided over the trial may have changed his mind. Jud
The time of directly fighting piracy is over. Film companies have to change their business models to survive challenges by digital distribution. This is what News Corp. Peter Chernin said this weekend, at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s convention. “We look at this as an opportunity, hopefully profitable. The challenge is how do we [...]
Software piracy statistics scream for attention every May when the Business Software Alliance (BSA) releases its piracy report. Its angst is understandable when it rues that almost half of the estimated one billion personal computers (PCs) have pirated/unlicensed software, resulting in losses of $48 billion an increase of six times over the 2007 figures. In India too, while piracy dropped by tw
Although PC software piracy declined in many countries in 2007, piracy increased in fast-growing PC markets, resulting in an overall rise of piracy from 35% to 38%, and dollar losses that increased by $8 billion to nearly $48 billion. The annual study was conducted by IDC and released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).
A federal judge has ruled that a commercial plagiarism-detection tool popular among professors does not violate the copyrights of students, even though it stores digital copies of their essays in the database that the company uses to check works for academic dishonesty. The decision has implications for other digital services, such as Google's effort to scan books in major libraries and add them t
“By the end of 2007, there were more than 1 billion PCs installed around the world, and close to half had pirated, unlicensed software on them,”
A recent IDC study found software piracy is still on the rise and more prevelant than ever.
The study estimates that 38% of the worlds commercial software is pirated, which is [...]
"With great power comes great responsibility." Wise words, Uncle Ben, but someone at BioWare wasn't listening. For those who hate following links, the short version of the story is that BioWare was going to implement draconian anti-piracy measures in Mass Effect and Spore for PC. In the end, they won't be doing it, but it wasn't for the lack of trying. Indeed, I tend to agree with Penny Arcade whe
Paulo Coelho, author of books such as “The Alchemist” and “The Witch of Portobello”, sold over 100 million books last year. In part, he puts this success down to BitTorrent, as he saw a huge increase in sales when his books appeared on sites such as The Pirate Bay. We talked to Coelho to find [...]
The federal judge (Florence-Marie Cooper) has ordered TorrentSpy to pay the Motion Picture Association of America $110 million for infringement of 3 699 of copyrighted film and TV shows. [...]
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Indian Film Industry, Bollywood, Steps Up Fight against Piracy
Voice of America -Apr 28, 2008
By Anjana Pasricha The Indian Hindi language movie industry - popularly known as Bollywood - is stepping up its fight against film piracy both at home and …
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“This is just the latest attempt by the software giant to try to stem the rising tide of counterfeit products that costs the company millions of dollars annually in some of its most promising markets.” — Mike Caggeso
Blogger’s note: Think piracy is a problem in the States? You should see what’s [...]
When it comes to software piracy, Microsoft may just be aiding the enemy. Microsoft has been counting on gains against unlicensed software to boost revenue from the Windows unit, which accounts for a huge chunk of overall profits and sales. However, one of the company's own decisions could make its antipiracy battle more difficult. With Windows Vista, Microsoft took an extremely
The U.S. Trade Representative said that Russia and China had been put on a list of countries that do not do enough to fight piracy of intellectual property....
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Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) Fed up with the Maharashtra government's inaction, Bollywood is now taking up the matter of piracy with the central government and has written to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, urging him to take corrective action.
The Navajo Nation Council will vote on the "Navajo Nation Unauthorized Recording Act of 2007" (Legislation No. 0836-07) this week at the Council Spring Session April 21-25, 2008.This is a very important piece of legislation that affects all artists and business owners. Please, those of you that support this legislation show your support by attending the Navajo Nation Council Session in Window Rock
A 36-year-old Sydney man has been arrested by Australian Federal Police for his alleged involvement in an international music piracy ring.
The man was allegedly involved in connection with the manufacture and international distribution of CDs on a commercial scale.
The AFP seized thousands of pirated CDs and album covers during searches conducted at businesses and residences [...]
An organization called the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has begun publishing a list of valid channel distributors for semiconductor parts. The idea is to curb the rampant piracy that is reportedly happening in China and other parts of the world.
One of the more common problems is the rebranding of various chip components. A [...]
Pirate attacks rose worldwide in the first quarter of the year, with Nigeria overtaking Indonesia as the country worst plagued by sea bandits, a global maritime watchdog said Wednesday.Seafarers suffered 49 attacks between January and March around the world, up 20 percent from the 41 in the same period last year, the International Maritime Bureau said in a report by its piracy reporting center in Malaysia.Nigeria ranked as the No. 1 hotspot amid a lack of effective law enforcement, with its 10 reported attacks — mostly off its main city of Lagos — accounting for one-fifth of the global total, the London-based bureau said.Indonesian waters have long been the world's most afflicted by pirates, but the number of attacks in the first quarter fell from nine last year to four in 2008, the re
Eric Ligman, Microsoft US Senior Manager Small Business Community Engagement, has come out guns blazing with sarcasm following reports of a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 loophole which permits end users to perform clean installations of the operating system instead of upgrades. The workaround is nothing new and represents an item of novelty just [...]
European politicians have voted down calls to throw suspected file-sharers off the net. The idea to cut off persistent pirates formed part of a wide-ranging report on creative industries written for the European parliament. But in a narrow vote MEPs backed an amendment to the report which said net bans conflicted with "civil liberties and human rights". It puts MEPS at odds with
Sony BMG is no stranger to piracy. As one of the most vocal supporters of the RIAA and IFPI antipiracy efforts, the company has some experience hunting down and punishing consumers who don’t pay for its products. The company is getting some experience on the other side of the table, however, now that it’s being [...]
I've been watching my Jeeves and Wooster boxset.I loved the Jeeves books, and used to delight as a child in listening to Jonathan Cecil read Right Ho,Jeeves on audio tape while I ate dinner in our Sandhills house.However, the boxset is somewhat ruined by a piracy ad on each of the six DVD's.It's annoying to be subjected to the same dystopian whirring music and the captions"You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't steal a handbag, you wouldn't steal a television."The sort of people who would steal a car (a large percentage of the UK's population) won't really be moved by that.It's also not comparing like with like. Even if you do agree that downloading music/films/pictures of Britney Spears naked deprives artists/producers/porn magazines or money, you're not taking a physical object which mus
Always keen to stay on top of how content is being used and distributed, a few of us at DL have been playing around with the playlists and ‘channel’ building abilities of YouTube of late. While compiling and organising collections of strange video that we found, an interesting options popped out at us. In the list of playlists on the left hand menu is “Video ID Matches.” Being curious types we had to check it out. Being goody two shoes and not having any copyrighted videos on there, we found that it reported “Our systems have not detected any copyright issues.” How does video ID matching work? YouTube have developed a tool that uses fingerprinting — both of the audio and the video — that can identify content that the owners have registe
A small software company has accused major label Sony/BMG of software piracy, in a reversal of the normal orientation of piracy cases between major labels and the rest of the world. PointDev, which makes Windows administration software, claims that a raid on Sony/BMG servers revealed that as much as 47 percent of the software used by the company can be considered to have been pirated under
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“Ouch, that payback, it can be a bitch — Sony BMG, distributors of rootkit-installing CDs and litigious foe of P2P users worldwide, has just been busted in France for using pirated software on its servers. And it gets even worse: Windows admin tool developer PointDev says a Sony BMG was caught when an IT [...]
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsOuch, that payback, it can be a bitch -- Sony BMG, distributors of rootkit-installing CDs and litigious foe of P2P users worldwide, has just been busted in France for using pirated software on its servers. And it gets even worse: Windows admin tool developer PointDev says a Sony BMG was caught when an IT staffer actually called up for support and gave a pirated license number to the phone tech. That's some pretty shady behavior for a company that's rammed anti-piracy measures down its own customers' throats -- too bad it's probably not going to feel the hit of the €300,000 ($475,000) lawsuit nearly as hard as the college students it routinely sues for $5,000.[Via ZeroPaid, thanks to everyone who sent this in] Read | Permalink | Email this
Karen Croxson, a Junior Research Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford, gave a lecture at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference explaining how software and music piracy can actually help businesses.While piracy may harm sales, it can also serve to provide free marketing, helping to create ‘buzz’ about a product.This is product specific and may explain certain protections: console games vs. office software for example.The unauthorised copying of digital goods such as software, music and films – a practice referred to as ‘digital piracy’ – has been claimed to place in peril the viability of whole industries. With perceived losses running so high, one might expect to see all sellers moving mountains to safeguard their intellectual property technologically. In fact the
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) The government does not want to set up another group of inspectors to check video and audio piracy as it would go against the policy of liberalisation, a top official said here Tuesday.
In the age of digital media, piracy runs rampant. It is now as easy to share music or a movie as it is to share an idea. So in recent years, we’ve been fed (dis)information about copyright laws. ???Think of the artists??? we’re told. If you download music, somewhere there is a poor, struggling artist [...]
Its war... and they will not win.
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon woman is trying to turn the tables on the music industry's anti-music piracy campaign.Tanya Anderson claims the industry is threatening and intimidating innocent people and has filed a new lawsuit accusing record companies of racketeering, fraud and illegal spying.The suit claims the industry and the company it hired, MediaSentry, used
I just read an interesting article on a new hardware technology that – the patent owner hope – would end piracy on Integrated Circuits. Obviously, piracy s not only a software problem……
New Tech Fights Chip Piracy With Virtual Lock and Key
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P.S: Pretty bad is the typo in the first paragraph: A new technology unveiled Wednesday aims to prevent hardware privacy by protecting microchips with the virtual equivalent of an embedded "lock" that can be opened only by the patent owner. Are they use they mean Privacy and not Piracy J????
Software piracy is stifling innovation, claims a recent study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance. Having little confidence that their intellectual property rights are protected, software developers have been reluctant to develop new products from the China market. ZDNet Asia, always a good source for technology news, also points out that reducing piracy can create [...]
Piracy is so bad, according to the MPAA, that we need special legislation to target the dastardly college pirates who are destroying the business. It's so bad that Weekly Reader subscribers will learn about the $7 billion a year "lost" to Internet piracy. It's so bad that the MPAA wants ISPs to ignore years of common carrier law and the promises of "safe harbor" and start filtering their traffic, looking for copyright violations. The real world isn't quite this simple, of course. It turns out that the MPAA's college numbers were off by a factor of three, a revelation that came after years of hiding the study's methodology but continuing to lobby Congress with its numbers. There's no possible way that the MPAA can truly know what it "lost" to piracy, either, as it has no real idea what perc
Woe be the PC game developer these days, as various reports put piracy rates in the U.S. at approximately 70-85%.Pirates?! I'm supposed to be fighting a hydra!It's no wonder that Epic Games is dumping PC games for the greener pastures of console gaming: piracy rates for the U.S. market alone are hovering around 80%!And beyond the U.S., the piracy picture becomes even larger and more menacing -- especially if you're an independent developer without "Madden-sized advertising budget," said THQ Director of Creative Management Michael Fitch, who laid out his case against piracy and hardware manufactures in an epic rant at the Quarter to Three forums.In the post, Fitch attacked pirates, the PC software security model and everything in between. In Europe, he said, piracy rates approach 90%. In As
Near-perfect knockoffs of 21 different Microsoft programs began surfacing around the world just over a decade ago. Soon, PCs in more than a dozen countries were running illegal copies of Windows and Office, turning unwitting consumers into criminals and, Microsoft says, exposing them to increased risk of malicious viruses and spyware...Read the full article here.
SOUTH African ships are taking drastic steps to protect crews from pirates following an increase in attacks along the African coast.The country has also been encouraged to raise the issue of piracy in bilateral relations with Nigeria and Somalia, the two African nations most plagued by boatloads of heavily armed pirates.The safety precautions follow a shock annual report from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) which has reported a 10% increase in piracy incidents worldwide over the past year, with the major hot spots all in African waters.
SOUTH African ships are taking drastic steps to protect crews from pirates following an increase in attacks along the African coast.The country has also been encouraged to raise the issue of piracy in bilateral relations with Nigeria and Somalia, the two African nations most plagued by boatloads of heavily armed pirates.The safety precautions follow a shock annual report from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) which has reported a 10% increase in piracy incidents worldwide over the past year, with the major hot spots all in African waters.
Yahoo China lost another round in a legal battle as a court in Beijing upheld a ruling that the company is infringing on copyright laws by allowing pirated music to be downloaded, according to the industry group suing Yahoo China. "The ruling against Yahoo China is extremely significant in clarifying copyright rules for Internet music services in China," John Kennedy, chairman and CEO of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries, or IFPI, said in a statement Thursday. "By confirming that Yahoo China's service violates copyright under new Chinese laws, the Beijing court has effectively set the standard for Internet companies throughout the country." Yahoo owns a 44 percent stake in Yahoo China, and the controlling stake is owned by Chinese Internet company Al
Microsoft Corp. is pulling back from a system that disables programs on users’ computers if it suspects the software is pirated, opting instead for a gentler approach based on nagging alerts.
Microsoft said late Monday it will roll out the new version of Windows Genuine Advantage with the first “service pack” for Windows Vista, due in the first quarter of 2008.
When computer users activate a copy of Windows Vista or try to download certain software from Microsoft’s Web site, the Windows Genuine Advantage system scans their PCs for signs of pirated software. Today, if the tool finds an unauthorized copy of Vista, the glassy Vista user experience disappears and other features are suspended.
In the new version, PC users found to have a pirated copy of Vista will continue to be able to use their computers, but with unmistakable signs their operating system is a fake. The desktop wallpaper will turn black, and a white notice will appear alerting users to the problem.
Be prepared for changes in Vista soon. While Microsoft plans its release of SP1 for Vista expect updates in Vista regarding the user experience of its automatic anti-piracy checks in order to make it harder for hackers to bypass the system in the first service pack for the OS due out early next year. Once Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is installed on a PC, that computer will no longer go into limited functionality mode if a user or administrator fails to activate Vista on that system in 30 days, or if the system fails Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation, which checks to see if a version of Vista is pirated or counterfeit. In Vista, WGA is called the Software Protection Program feature.In limited functionality mode, a computer will shut down after 60 minutes and then allow only browser use. Now, instead of going into that mode, a version of Vista that has not been activated in 30 days will start up with a black screen and a dialogue box that gives users the choi
From time to time people ask me about piracy and security.
Let's start with piracy first. If you look at the 2007 Global Piracy Study by BSA, the numbers are frightening. Looking at EMEA, it starts with Moldova on 94% pirated software to Denmark with 25% (which is still every fourth copy!) - the rest is somewhere in between! This is pretty significant and I think it is clear that we are flighting against people stealing our property.
If it come to the relation between security and privacy, I would love to have any figures. All the figures about malware we have are mainly from the Malicious Software Removal Tool (which is mainly delivered through Automatic Update) and somebody who is deliberately using a pirated copy would most probably not switch on AU (even though we do not look at the machines). This makes it pretty bad - probably - as the machines will not be patched. To make the point clear: We are delivering critical security updates even to people who have stolen our software i
Reading around on the internet lately, I have seen a great deal of talk about piracy and how it “negatively effects” the economy and the companies involved. I am strongly of the opinion that such a statement is complete and absolute bogus. If anything, piracy has helped the economy and companies. I myself have downloaded plenty of things that I didn’t own. Why, might you ask, have I pirated things? Well; how else am I going to find out if it’s actually any good?
Sometimes you can walk into a music store and listen to an album to see if you like it, or download a demo of a game off the internet to see if the game was actually fun–sometimes being the key word there. For the most part, this simply is not the case. How can you expect someone to buy something that they don’t even know they will enjoy? And for such unreasonable prices, I might add!
You know how much it costs to have DVDs pressed? Approximately $0.50 per disk. The current generation of vide
UK based website TV-Links.co.uk was shut down by to British authorities few days back and the webmaster of this site and other staff members are also arrested. Why? Only because their website provided links to TV shows posted on various video-sharing websites, like YouTube or Google Video. Yes only links and they didn’t host any [...]
Maritime pirate attacks worldwide shot up 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007 from a year earlier, with Somalia and Nigeria showing among the biggest increases, an international watchdog said Tuesday.A total of 198 attacks on ships were reported between January and September this year, up from 174 in the same period in 2006, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said.Indonesia remained the world's worst piracy hotspot, with 37 attacks in the first nine months of 2007 - but this was an improvement from 40 in the same period a year earlier, the IMB said.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
With every products release on the market as popular as the Nintendo DS, there is always going to be some sort of piracy that will follow. But Nintendo decided to take action and begin to prosecute software pirates in South Korea. A quote by a Nintendo spokesperson outlines their intentions: “They infringed on our copyright by posting Nintendo’s game titles through the Internet without permission. The legal action was taken against only some sites and users this time but we will take further measures if such a violation continues to take place.”Source: Digital Battle Online Games Nintendo DS Wii South Korea Software pirates Piracy
I've written a piece on CNET this week about frequent users of illegal download software, may be technically addicted to pirating music."The days of Kazaa were the first few hits of the download drug that the virtual dealer gave us for free. Now, BitTorrent is the heroin of data hoarders, and try as they might, it's a hard needle for addicts to dispose of."Link: http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/natelanxon/0,139102300,49292728,00.htm
Skull and Cross Bones, the symbol of piracy on the high seas: this one--a real treasure and the best rendition of a very popular style. No less than 32 Swarovski crystals, a piece, adorn these little gems. “The Globe” is another amongst the Veritas collection, impressionable, everlasting styles. If you’re looking for some colour in your life—“The Sunflower” in hues that are sure to appeal to any tastes, like Topaz, Fuchsia and Amber. Just a hint of styles produced by Veritas, want more?
Youtube will launch a video ad service today. The service focuses on not being annoying to users while offering unique opportunity to advertisers. Instead of launching 15 to 30 second pre-roll ads, which research has shown only holds 30% viewer attention, Youtube will include a 10 second semi-transparent ad at the bottom of the video clip. At this point the user will generate a choice, either ignoring the ad, which will disappear after 10 seconds, or clicking to peruse further, whereby the video clip will pause and a full version of the ad will launch. By contrast, %90 of viewers will stick with an ad overly. Additionally, advertisers have the freedom to run launch ads much longer since the user has decided to research.(Link)A report issued by the Institute for Policy Innovation has found global music piracy responsible for slashing both 12.5 billion in US economic output and 71,060 jobs annually. Additionally, the report suggests that the US governments loses $422 million in tax dolla
You wish to watch a movie on your computer or Home theatre, what do you do?Option 1: Buy an original VCD/DVD from a branded showroom by paying several hundred rupees (Legal high quality content but expensive)Option 2: Buy a pirated VCD/DVD for say 50-100 Rupees or less (illegal, quality may not be good, but pretty cheap)Option 3: Rent a VCD/DVD for Rs.15-30 approx (Usually good quality, Watch and return it (some people make a copy of it though))Since cost is primary concern for most of middleclass people, many of us will be tempted to go for option 2 or 3 which directly or indirectly promotes piracy, when multiple illegal copies of a movie are made.Are you aware (if you've seen thier ads on TV), original VCDs and DVDs can be purchased at the cost of pirated one? Moserbaer India (BSE:MOSR, a leading digital media manufacturer) has taken an initiative in this regard wherein they sell Full movie VCDs Rs 28 onwards and DVDs Rs 34 onwards.What? Tell me more…Hindi and regional language fi
[.pdf file]. The subtitle to this article is: “When copyright owners stop selling older works, maybe pirates deserve some legal cover.” Interesting read.
Nice read. It’d be great for music that’s now out of print. I had Mike Doughty’s Smofe + Smang CD a few years back. It was swiped from my car, along with a few other CD’s. I would have gladly re-bought the CD, but now it’s out of print. Normally I’d be out of luck, but through the magic of Bit Torrent, I can now listen to these gems by the ex-Soul Coughing front man.
This uncanny Anti-Piracy video has seriously moved me, it has really touched me and made me ponder my inherent morality. From this day forth I will never always pirate video games and software. Watch it after the break. (more…)
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‘Legitimate’ stores selling counterfeit CDs, games and DVDs have been popping up all over the place recently, and I’ve always wondered how they get away with selling copied discs.
My flatmates recently bought Fight Night Round 3 from a shop called Cybermedia in Cape Town, for R100 - a fifth of the price of buying it in a mainstream CD store. Granted, the low DPI on the printing of the disc label and cover produce a slightly ‘spotty’ copy, but other than that the game is identical. We’re not talking street vendors with re-dubbed Afghan releases of Titanic.
I’d heard about the shop before, and one or two others (The Source), but I thought it was meet-someone-on-the-street-corner-and-use-a-fake-name kind of deal. I didn’t know they had a physical shop, catalogue and website. How could this be possible? Will we ever know?
Yes, we will know. Cybermedia have taken advantage of the infamous backup loophole. Basically they sell copies of th
Call For Papers: 'Piracy' - antiTHESIS Journal, Volume 18 (2008)"In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates."-FoucaultantiTHESIS, one of Australia's longest running postgraduate interdisciplinary journals, now invites creative, scholarly and visual contributions for Volume 18, 'Piracy.' Despite its negative representation in official histories, piracy presents a site of contestation and alterity within an increasingly rationalised and globalised modernity. Piracy brings the concepts of ownership and territory into question; digital piracy disrupts the opposition between work and play, producer and consumer (Kline, 2003). As such, piracy as concept and as practice offers a way to re-think issues within and between disciplines. We seek papers that explore the idea of piracy in relation to the following themes:--piracy and new media--piracy and the state--cultural representation of pirates--copyright
Well so this was Bollywoods Answer to Hitch. Salman Khan vs Will Smith. Alex Hitch vs Love Guru Prem. Copy...but Copy well, I am not such a critique but here's what is overdone and not so rightly done:The Start - Kinda Salman Khan... A Bollywood Hero, after all so he is in Satwa Aasman as Love Guru with LCD Tv's on the background... Whereas Alex Hitch, not so popular...an average kinda guy loves to keep this business total secret.Eva Mendes vs. Lara Dutt ... Sexy and smart vs well...just beautiful. Eva bites her lip...half the work done, the other half rests on her mole..... Lara had to run from Chotta Don.... shoot pictures... and also dance to Rap....MAN !! BollywoodBollywood and No Villain ?? there is "Chotta Don" ...there is no vs in the Hollywood version.. I don't quite remember what happened to Chotta Don...except the fact...it was boggus addition... He never fought and had to bath in pee. He did try his level best to make me laugh...without a joke.Aha....Eva Mendes, su
Raids by the FBI and China's Public Security Bureau in the southern region of China has resulted in the arrest of 24, and exposed a two billion dollar global software piracy syndicate, believed to be one of the largest in the world.
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