The Oatmeal on Piracy This needs reading by everyone. Cutting the supply of media to people is not creating more money, it is creating new avenues for content to get to people for free. The growing popularity of podcasts and internet TV channels are a direct result of the democratization of media. My advice to [...]

The Pirate Bay reacting to SOPA Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright [...]

How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the U.S. Economy? by Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman These numbers seem truly dire: a $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and child in America. And 750,000 jobs – that’s twice the number of those employed in the entire [...]