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  1. The cost of software piracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    The enormous dollar amounts the software industry throws around in its PR campaigns about software 'piracy' are purely imaginary.
  2. 'Feels like blackmail': Canada needs to take a hard look at its piracy notice system
    Copyright infringement notices spark fear and confusion among some Canadians
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Some anti-piracy firms routinely send out letters demanding hundreds of dollars from Canadians for alleged illegal downloads. And if they don't pay up, recipients are told they could face legal action and big fines. The problem is, people may be falsely accused and no one is under obligation to pay a settlement -- not even a penny.
  3. Gimme the Loot
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africa’s Gold Coast.
  4. Pirating Creativity
    The MPAA Is Going After Schoolchildren
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) goes all-out enforce its “intellectual property” claims upon those who would dare share and distribute media.
  5. Richard O'Dwyer: living with the threat of extradition
    Student who set up website posting links to TV and film content fears being used as a guinea pig by Hollywood giants
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Richard O'Dwyer's web-linking site would place him at the heart of the titanic running battle between the Hollywood giants – struggling to keep their beleaguered business model intact in the online era – and a new digital generation unwilling to play by the old rules.

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