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Pirates bugging you? Get more efficient

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

Via Mike Masnick at Techdirt, I came across a great post at TorrentFreak by Matt Mason, the author of a new book called The Pirate’s Dilemma. In what amounts to a preview of some of the arguments in his book (I assume, since it just came out), the former pirate-radio staffer ... Continue reading »

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  • antje

    1 year ago

    Mathew would love to hear your thoughts on my boss's take on a related topic of software piracy:
    http://www.storyofmylife.com/User/user_journals...
    (yeah yeah, just hoping for some work related brownie points) ;)
    reply
  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the link, Antje -- I think your boss makes a good point
    about the disparities between the developed world and the
    less-developed world when it comes to pricing. The problem, as she
    points out, is that if there were different prices then everyone would
    want the cheaper version.

    On a related note, I came across a quote from Bill Gates awhile back
    in which he said that piracy in China and India didn't really bother
    him, because he saw it as kind of a trial program, and that he
    expected eventually those people would wind up buying the real thing.
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  • antje

    1 year ago

    M - really? Do you by chance recall where that might have been (dag he's softening in his old age... lol). My Indian colleagues tell me that MSFT is one of the biggest proponents and supporters of the piracy police via the government and continues to push them to crackdown, but then again many of them are the same folks who like to bash MSFT for all the evils in the world.
    reply
  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    There's a comment in this Fortune piece
    (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_...)
    about how tolerating piracy was the best move Microsoft ever made in
    China, and the quote I'm thinking of appeared in an LA Times story
    that is posted here:
    http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic...
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