The Latest Frontier in Audio Engineering… Photoshop?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but can that picture sing to you? Someone appears to be releasing software that could also put a whole new meaning to the term ‘photo sharing’. Sure, making pictures make sound isn’t entirely new, but it’s apparently possible to take a sound file, turn [...]
BSA Admits Calculated Losses Due to Swedish Software Piracy Entirely Hypothetical
It’s another blow to the studies that are put out by the industry to highlight the problems of piracy – one of the studies published by the Business Software Alliance to highlight the problem in Sweden is apparently “built on flat fees and estimates”. In other words, they effectively gave an educated guess.
Will the [...]
Microsoft – We Don’t Have a Monopoly in China Because of Piracy
Here’s a relatively unique way to blame piracy – say that it’s the reason you don’t have a monopoly to avoid anti-trust fines.
There are those that hear the same old tired scapegoat. Profits down? Blame piracy. Sales down? Blame piracy. Sales up? It’s in spite of piracy and there [...]
Piracy – The Secret Money-Maker for the Hardware Industry – ID Software CEO
The computer industry has, no doubt, been a huge success in the last 50 or so years – including the hardware side of things. Has all that success been largely thanks to piracy? The CEO of ID Software seems to think so.
CustomPC is pointing to an interesting interview on GameIndustry.biz where the issue [...]
Sony BMG Sued for Software Piracy – Assets Seized
Sony BMG, a company known for enforcing its intellectual property rights, is now facing the other end of an Intellectual Property related lawsuit. A report (French) says the complaining company, PointDev, seized some of Sonys assets which revealed that the pirated software appeared on four of their servers.
PointDev, a small software company, mandated a [...]
YouTube adds video recording feature
Video-sharing website YouTube quietly launched a new service Friday that allows members to instantly record a video to the site rather than having to pre-record a clip and upload it.
The service, dubbed Quick Capture, uses a computer’s built-in or plugged-in webcam to record the video with the help of a Flash-based interface. Flash is a [...]
Microsoft Jumps On BitTorrent Bandwagon
Cachelogic, a network monitoring firm that conducted a worldwide survey of network activity during June 2004, found that BitTorrent accounted for 53 percent of P2P traffic and 35 percent of overall Internet traffic.
Seeing this as a good market, Microsoft had been following suit and they jumped on the bandwagon of BitTorrent file-sharing software. In [...]
FSF still waiting on Bono
THE FREE Software Foundation’s (FSF) bold attempt to recruit Bono in its fight against digital rights management seems to be falling on stony ground, deaf ears and other matters hard and obtuse.A week ago we reported on a superb open letter by FSF freedom fighters to the popular Irish singer. The letter, here, which really [...]
Schools targeted with anti-piracy message
The Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) is targeting primary and secondary schools for the first time with a campaign to promote the legal use of software.
The initiative aims to promote awareness of the legal ramifications of software misuse as well as taking enforcement action against infringements.
‘With the rapid growth in the uptake of the internet, [...]
ZeroPaid: Explore the improved software section
As many of you may well know, I was recently appointed as the Program Administrator for Zeropaid and I’ve been working nearly non-stop over the past few weeks giving the software section a good thorough cleaning.
I’m going to give you all some links to the new programs and the many new sections, over 10 [...]
