Comments on: Piracy and Privacy

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:19:07 +0000

This article clearly distinguish the difference between “Privacy” from “Theft”
And it also gives users about the concept of privacy and defines the behavior of “Theft”. It’s really an interesting article. And in my opinion, I don’t think ISP should monitor what uses do all the time.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:07:57 +0000

This war on “piracy” is a waste of resources on part of companies. The end result will not be in their favor either. For my team’s case study, we did research on the area of copyright infringement which is tied to piracy. I remember reading about the controversial strategy of filing copyright lawsuits against individuals accused of copyright violations by the music industry. 30,000 people or so were suited, legal costs were HUGE and it was a public relations nightmare. PIRACY still continued. Piracy needs to be seen a competing force. There are certain ways to leverage value out of it. Could it be that those they pirate are fans of your products? can you use those that pirate to help market your product? what new business model can you develop to compete with it. Look again at music industry and growing popularity of iTunes as a means to distribute it has been successful but is not perfect. There needs to more of this kind of forward thinking as oppose to looking have piracy as some kind of evil force we must go to war against.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:07:18 +0000

Joe, I agree with that “Piracy is capturing a creative though or principle that was not from my head without notice of owner of it.” You can definetly consider that behavior a theft.
Regardless of that piracy is a theft, in the post, I was trying to get a attention that how ACTA try to fight piracy without thinking privacy. In my opinion, it is avery serious issue for me because I cannot stand ISP monitor what I do online all the time.

By: JoeYun

JoeYun — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:23:34 +0000

This is interesting posting from Josh Thank you for your effort to expand my knowledge. The picture you posted makes me sense what is different between Theft and Piracy. So you said Piracy is kind of activity of copy a material from others. If you have a copyright of the product, you can copy the product as much as you can. but this is not piracy it is just copy or produce more. I think Piracy is not only copy activity but also theft activity. Piracy is capturing a creative though or principle that was not from my head without notice of owner of it. Therefore, I think piracy is definitely theft too.
How do you think?