The Piracy Years

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Apr 28, 2016	Lessons From Prince's Legacy And Struggle With Digital Music Markets	Undeniably, Prince’s death last week marked the loss of a true musical genius and maverick. In his life, he was known for being a talented musical innovator with flamboyant clothes and a contrarian streak. He was adept at a range of instrum...
Nov 11, 2015	On The Dark Matter Of The Publishing Industry	Len Epp Contributor More posts by this contributor A Vision Of A Driverless Future Recently there were a pair of revealing eruptions in the world of ebooks and the volatile book publishing industry more generally. The first was the announce...
Aug 19, 2014	Russian music startup Zvooq raises $20 million ahead of Spotify’s arrival, but its real enemy is piracy	Russian digital music streaming service provider Zvooq is today announcing a $20 million Series A financing round led by online retail giant Ulmart, with participation from Helsinki-based private equity firm Essedel Capital. The news comes ...
Jan 21, 2014	Can former “pirates” fix a broken movie market?	Aurich Lawson reader comments 85 with 62 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit For a country of 16 million people with a GDP under $100 billion, Ecuador spends a lot of time in the US cros...
Feb 13, 2013	Germany's Curious Income Divide On Infringement Remedies: High-Earners Support Content Blocking, Oppose Disconnection	Recently, the American Assembly released Copy Culture In The US & Germany, a report based on an extensive survey about attitudes and practices surrounding media consumption and piracy in the two countries. (Disclosure: We supplied the d...
Feb 5, 2013	The Many Motivations Of Movie Piracy (Notably Absent: 'I Want Everything For Free')	In the recently released Copy Culture In The US & Germany survey report from the American Assembly (for which we provided the design & layout work), one small but especially interesting component is the list of reasons given for dow...
Jan 15, 2013	Study Maps the Emerging Ethics of File Sharing and Copyright Enforcement	Today the American Assembly, a non-partisan public policy forum affiliated with Columbia University, published its long-awaited Copy Culture report. The study is based on thousands of telephone interviews conducted in the United States and ...
Dec 17, 2012	Creators: Kill The Hobbit To Save Regular Earth, And Win!	Last week, we wrote about an article by Joe Karaganis discussing the huge tax subsidies and political concessions wrested from the New Zealand government by Warner Bros. in order to film The Hobbit in the country. The editorial was entitled...
Nov 15, 2012	RIAA Prefers Customers Who Buy A Little To Pirates Who Buy A Lot	Some weeks ago, we published a lengthy blog post called Where do Music Collections Come From? which discussed findings from our Copy Culture survey of 1000 Germans and 2300 Americans.
Nov 1, 2012	Could Pirate Romney Win/Have Won the Election?	What do we know about Romney’s views on intellectual property? Really just two things. We know that he joined the roster of anti-SOPA Republicans last year when that seemed like the thing to do (“I’m standing for freedom”). And we know that...
Oct 19, 2012	Why The Music Industry Should Be Thanking Illegal Downloaders	Next month, people who download music illegally may start getting anti-piracy warnings from their Internet Service Providers. If recent research is any indication, maybe they should be getting “thank you” notes instead. Turns out that peopl...
Oct 17, 2012	Yet Again, File Sharing Correlated To Biggest Buyers	At this point, it’s not a surprise since we’ve covered this in study, after study, after study, after study, after study, after study before, but Joe Karaganis’ recent “tease” of his latest “copy culture” study shows that the biggest “pirat...
Oct 15, 2012	File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers	The major music labels have a clear stance on online piracy, as the following quote from the RIAA illustrates. “While downloading one song may not feel that serious of a crime, the accumulative impact of millions of songs downloaded illegal...
Oct 15, 2012	Actually, file-sharers buy more legal music than everyone else	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! A study has found that music fans who use peer-to...
Oct 5, 2012	Why The MPAA Can't 'Win The Hearts And Minds' Of The Public: File Sharing Is Mainstream	A few weeks ago we wrote about a new “digital music index” from London-based Musicmetrics looking at the popularity of file sharing by location in the UK. The results showed that the act of file sharing was mainstream, rather than a limited...
Oct 1, 2012	Crime Inc. Inc., The Business Of Hyping The Piracy Threat	Growing up in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s, I have fond memories of watching Bill Kurtis on Channel 2 news. He was sort of a local Walter Cronkite–the personification of the news. At our house, he was on every night.

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Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning The Piracy Years, among them “Lessons From Prince's Legacy And Struggle With Digital Music Markets” (Apr 28, 2016) and “On The Dark Matter Of The Publishing Industry” (Nov 11, 2015).

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