The One With Aldacron

This series of posts was started to address a common justification for the piracy of digital products, the idea that information should be free. In the first post, I examined a related argument, that corporations are evil, and argued that it is no excuse for piracy. In part two, I started to look at the [...]

In my last post, I laid out my view that supporters of digital piracy who claim to be fighting evil, greedy corporations are missing the bigger picture. They are ignoring countless small businesses and individuals whose products are pirated just as often as those of major corporations. In summary, I find the argument that “corporations [...]

No matter how hard I try, I cannot contort my neurons enough to understand the argument that a creative work is information. This is the position taken by a segment of the anti-copyright, pro-piracy crowd. Though, I suspect that those who say it with conviction are a minority, while the majority who spout it are [...]

Good news for software developers, artists, writers, movie makers, and anyone who wants to make a living off of their creativity. The four men behind Pirate Bay, that cess pit of digital piracy, have been found guilty of violating copyright laws. Each of them have been sentenced to a year in prison and will all [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how dense corporate types are when it comes to DRM. They repeatedly venture into the realms of stupidity and self-destruction. Supposedly, DRM exists to prevent people from pirating ‘intellectual property’. But because of the brain-dead decisions corporations make regarding DRM issues, it instead has the same effect on piracy [...]

I think people who pirate are scum, but I”m not a fan of the RIAA either. Their tactics have done nothing to solve the problem and a lot to exacerbate it. You’d think that executives with years of education behind them would have the critical thinking skills to realize that suing middle school students and [...]

In my last post, regarding measures like DRM I said, “The draconian steps these corporations have taken have, rather than preventing piracy, very likely led to an increase in piracy.” The consumerist has posted a reader’s letter, which was originally intended as a consumer complaint to Rhino. Titled “How I Became a Music Pirate”, the [...]

In my most recent post on piracy, I talked about some of the reasons people pirate and, as an example of the draconian measures corporations implement in response, talked about Vista’s DRM features as related in a document by Peter Gutmann. In Gutmann’s opinion, Vista is suicide for Microsoft. I didn’t quite see it that [...]

I’ve made my stance on digital media piracy very clear on this blog. I think people who copy and distribute the hard work of others are scum, even when doing it for no profit. Those who then take advantage of the situation by downloading such illegally distributed content are worse. But being against piracy does [...]

Some time ago I posted about all of the idiots coming to my blog through searching for a key to RegCure. Since that post, it’s gotten worse. If you look at the referral stats that Site Meter records for me, you’ll see that the majority of visitors to this site are coming through Google or [...]