Category: regulation
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Online Piracy the Greatest Threat to… Pirates!
Just reading through the documents from WIPO’s December meeting of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement, and in particular looking at price comparisons between the retail versions and the pirate versions of CDs and DVDs. One thing stood out to me, that these products are very highly valued by people, no matter how they manage to acquire…
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A New Era for the Music Industry
The UK music industry is going to have to get used to being regulated. It has no-one but itself to blame for this, having lobbied hard to get ISPs forced by Government into some kind of anti-infringement process. Music is a small industry. The people are known to each other, and while many would say…