Piracy killed the creative industry
http://www.timeslive.co.za/entertain...g-china-market
Angry Birds company let's the Chinese thieves do it for them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009...buy-more-music
As we all know, home taping has killed the music industry by now.
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number9...rike-copyright
"Two copy infringements, bye bye internet" deal for pirates was introduced to Germany's legislation by a man with two copyright infringing pictures in his blog. He was quickly called out.
But he didn't lose his internet because it was part of his brilliant plan or something:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Siegfried Kauder, the modern equivalent to a book burner
I'm grateful that I got the opportunity to show how the warning model works. The use of the two copyright-protected photographs was brought to my attention. The photos were then removed, so the warning model works.
So then the nice policemen understood that silly Mr Kauder didn't do anything wrong, although he continued to break his own law by not deleting the photos from his server.
International Pirate Party is only a few measly years old but check them out at Germany and other countries from this handy list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_...Pirate_Parties
But don't trust what pirates tell you at Wikipedia, it's run by the communist open source hoodoo anyways.