So a friend tipped me to this story on piracy that was on front page of Metro, a free UK daily newspaper. Normally I would read it, laugh at the inaccuracies, and go on with my life. But I decided to rebut this one. It should only take me a half hour or so, and [...]
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Piracy will bring about the end of Western Civilization
April 19th, 2011 · 6 Comments · opinion
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Can we talk about reasonable copyrights?
April 9th, 2011 · 5 Comments · opinion
Now, I’m all for author rights — I’m an author myself — but my personal take is that folks like J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer would make out just fine even if their rights to their respective works were limited to just, say, the first 40 years after publication [2037 for Potter, 2045 for Twilight] [...]
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Ad revenues and what it tells us about paywalls
April 7th, 2011 · 6 Comments · opinion
There’s a well known fact about ad revenues for print vs internet: internet ad revenues are usually lower than print. This fact is one of the reasons given for why some websites are implementing paywalls. They’re trying to bring in more money to boost their website revenue to the same range as their print revenue. [...]
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