By Param, on December 5th, 2012%
Digital India was abuzz yesterday with news of iTunes launching its music and films stores in India. I particularly liked the following posts covering the launch:
http://nh7.in/indiecision/2012/12/04/rip-and-run-itunes-india-store-is-finally-here
http://www.medianama.com/2012/12/223-apple-finally-extends-itunes-store-to-india/
While the buzz is mostly positive:
iTunes is so expensive. Bought a Radiohead album with 27 songs for Rs. 50 twitter.com/aneeshb/status…
— Aneesh Bhasin (@aneeshb) December . . . → Read More: iTunes Quietly Launches Music And Films In India (Links Available On MySwar)
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
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
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
By Param, on March 21st, 2011%
Pirates (distributors and consumers) often invoke Stewart Brands’ iconic phrase “Information wants to be free” to justify piracy. In a recent discussion with a friend, I argued that Brand used this powerful phrase to suggest that information should be easily available to everybody, not that it should be available free of cost. My friend’s . . . → Read More: Music Wants To Be Free
By Param, on December 7th, 2010%
I have been following Raghu Dixit closely over the last few weeks. I found out about him from a tweet by Vishal Dadlani, who, along with Shekhar Ravjiani, ‘discovered’ and promoted him. In fact, Raghu Dixit’s one and only album has been released by their label.
My curiosity piqued, I checked out Raghu Dixit’s . . . → Read More: The Mystery Of The Missing Raghu Dixit Album
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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