9 posts and columns on pirate

Music News Site Asks for Help Fending Off Music Service

in Media on April 6 at 7:17 am PT

Digital Music News asks for help fighting subpoenas from Grooveshark.
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How to Steal Any Movie You Want on the Web: Wall Street Gets a How-To Guide

in Media on January 7, 2011 at 8:21 am PT

It’s easier than ever to download any movie or TV show you want on the Web, for free. Just ask Rich Greenfield. Or better yet, let the Wall Street analyst show you, via a helpful four-minute video .

Big Music’s Digital Strategy: Cheap CDs

in Media on March 18, 2010 at 5:32 am PT

There’s a good chance you haven’t bought a CD in a long time. Would you think about it if they cost $10 or less?

Will iPhone App Makers Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Piracy?

in Media on January 25, 2010 at 5:36 am PT

Don’t know if this qualifies as a parable. But at the very least, it’s interesting: An iPhone app developer has figured out how to combat the burgeoning problem of iPhone app piracy–by embracing the pirates.

CBS Digital Boss Quincy Smith’s Not-Quite Exit Interview: “Hulu’s a Great Service. That’s Part of the Problem.”

in Media on October 28, 2009 at 1:31 pm PT

The man who helped shape CBS’s standalone Web video strategy explains himself, for the record.
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Big Music Label Foe LimeWire’s Newest Executive: A Big Music Label Veteran

in Media on June 29, 2009 at 11:40 am PT

What do you do when your job working for a big music label disappears? You go to work for a pirate-friendly file-sharing service that’s being sued by the big music labels.
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Here’s One Way to Get People to Pay for Music: Labels Win $2 Million Verdict in Downloading Trial

in Media on June 19, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Don’t want to pay $1 for a song on iTunes? Try $80,000 a pop. That’s what a federal jury in Minneapolis has told a woman to pay the music industry for illegally downloading 24 songs, bringing her total bill to $1.92 million. Her response: “Good luck trying to get it, because you can’t get blood out of a turnip.”
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Hey, Over Here, Everyone Plotzing Over Twitter Funding! "Aarrr," It's Facebook

in News on February 13, 2009 at 3:33 pm PT

Nobody, but nobody, releases news late Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend, unless they are trying to do a PR pirate raid on another company. So it was nice to see Facebook, which tried and failed to buy Twitter, having the moxie to release impressive user numbers for the fast-growing social-networking site just as all the oxygen was getting sucked out of the media room by news that the microblogging start-up got $35 million in new funding and a $250 million valuation. Translation from Facebook founder and CEO Mark “Talk-Like-a-Pirate” Zuckerberg: Aarrr! Yer a scurvy bilge rat, puny Twitter!