Partners In Crime – Documentary Review

By Param, on March 21st, 2012%

After my posts – Piracy is Mainstream and Why People Don’t Talk About Pirate Consumers – one of the readers of the blog recommended that I watch a documentary called Partners in Crime. I had heard about this documentary on Twitter but never got around to seeing it. I finally saw it last week and . . . → Read More: Partners In Crime – Documentary Review

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Why People Don’t Talk About Pirate Consumers

By Param, on February 21st, 2012%

I engaged in a long debate on Twitter yesterday with popular blogger, Karthik Srinivasan (entire conversation at the end of his post). To boil things down, I was asking why illegal downloaders don’t get called out for doing the wrong thing and his point was that it was not really going to make a . . . → Read More: Why People Don’t Talk About Pirate Consumers

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Piracy Is Mainstream

By Param, on February 18th, 2012%

I’ve been an anti-piracy advocate in my friend circle for many years now. Over time though, I realized that people like me were rare and specially in India, we became outcasts. Friends and relatives look at me like I am nuts when I refuse to lend them my iPod so they can copy songs . . . → Read More: Piracy Is Mainstream

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Will Music Piracy Die?

By Param, on December 2nd, 2010%

The short answer – No. The long answer follows -

Piracy is not unique to the music industry. Every product that can be duplicated and distributed for profit, invites piracy. However, a few things set apart the nature of piracy in the music industry:

Huge market – As I said in a previous post, . . . → Read More: Will Music Piracy Die?

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Music Industry’s Battle Against File Sharing (aka Piracy) Heats Up

By Param, on December 1st, 2010%

A few key events from the last few months:

LimeWire shuts down – LimeWire shutdown its P2P file-sharing service in October due to a court-ordered injunction. Within days, it was resurrected as LimeWire Pirate Edition (LPE) by a ‘secret dev team’. Predictably, LimeWire claimed that it had nothing to do with LPE. PCMag, very . . . → Read More: Music Industry’s Battle Against File Sharing (aka Piracy) Heats Up

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