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Recent Posts
- ‘Big Deals’ and Publisher-Library Competition
- On Informal Internet Freedoms (also, Paragraphs I Wish I Had Written Differently)
- The Curse of Tanya Grotter
- Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities
- Presenting ‘Copy Culture in the US and Germany’
- Canadian Book Pirates
- The ‘Kill the Hobbit to Save Regular Earth’ Initiative
- A Behind the Scenes Look at the Making of ‘Kill the Hobbit Subsidies to Save Regular Earth’
- Copy Culture by Race and Ethnicity
- NPD Confidential 3: In Which We Defend Ourselves Against Charges of Drunk Blogging and Practicing Math Without a License
- America Says: Go Gently on Porn Pirate
- Reading EULAs: Not Just for the Crazy Anymore
- Could Pirate Romney Win/Have Won?
- Male Copiers are from Mars. Female Copiers are also from Mars
- Die, Substitution Studies, Die II: Well, OK, Maybe Some Should Live
- NPD Confidential II: Die, Substitution Studies, Die
- NPD Confidential
- Where do Music Collections Come From?
- Unauthorized File Sharing: Is It Wrong?
- Crime Inc. Inc.
Tag Archives: Mexico
Crime Inc. Inc.
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–a personification of the news. At our house, he was on every … Continue reading
The MPAA in Latin America
Frederic Martel’s Mainstream (2010) is a very rich account of Hollywood’s (and America’s) global cultural dominance, based on a huge quantity of original research and reporting. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been translated into English (from French–it should be!). Among many other … Continue reading
Overinstaller Awareness Day
Among other things, today is BSA Day–the day on which the Business Software Alliance releases its annual Global Software Piracy Study. This year, like every year, the release involves pronouncements about how much the software industry suffers at the hands … Continue reading
Organized Crime: Businessweek edition
(updated, April 9) Sigh. I can see that engaging in this debate about organized crime and piracy means having to shoot down the same stuff over and over. You can look here if you want a detailed version of our … Continue reading
MPEE Mailbag: Career Options
We get mail: Dear MPEE, I’m a former banker fallen on hard times and am looking for a new line of work. I have read in the IIPA report that “the mark-up for DVD piracy (a relatively low-risk activity) is … Continue reading
