Comments on: It’s OK – We’re Good Pirates

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By: Sean Cranbury

Sean Cranbury — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:56:24 +0000

Great site, great post, Chris.

This problem/opportunity of piracy is of great interest to me. You’ve got some great responses and embiggened the argument.

Thanks. Looking forward to reading your blog regularly.

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By: american heretic » Why Software Piracy’s Not Theft

american heretic » Why Software Piracy’s Not Theft — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:27:04 +0000

[...] two extremely important issues that I had not addressed in my response to Chris Webb’s criticism of promotional piracy. I should also note that the title of this post is not exactly accurate and that I am most [...]

By: david valade

david valade — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:41:52 +0000

Chris, my assumptions on the outcome of a meaningful dialog focus on customer engagement and the identification of potentially viable business opportunities. Let’s assume that a significant portion of piracy is born out of unfulfilled customer need, instead of deviance. In this optimal situation new opportunities for publishers would emerge from engaging the participants of piracy.

Let’s take for example: MBUTTHA’s self-republishing business on a new site called Issuu. http://issuu.com/mbhutta/docs. Here you will find over 250 books and magazines. Several of Wiley’s own for dummies books are posted some with pub dates as recent as 2008. You’ll also find O’Reilly, Elsevier, Thomson, Taylor & Francis, to name a few.

Even more curiously, this person’s profile has a significant number of views, bookmarks and other social features that are part of the issuu platform. More so than most other “Publishers” on the site [as best as I can tell from brief research].

Ignoring the traffic and attraction of this person’s profile, I’m attributing this mostly to the quality of the content found there. I think the important question is why did they go through this level of effort? What need where they fulfilling?

I think there is a lot more to discuss, so I’ll stop here for brevity. One final comment: I was disappointed by issuu’s lack of any feature where I might report this person. As a social netizen, one should be able to assist with the enforcement of owner’s rights.

Perhaps another business opportunity?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:32:37 +0000

David, re: Warren’s comment – so what does it mean to have a “meaningful dialog with those who prefer to pirate…”?

I’d be interested in your thoughts on how we identify, contact and engage them.

By the way, I am very interested in the services list on your blog. Ill contact you directly about that.

By: american heretic » Royal Credence for Promotional Piracy

american heretic » Royal Credence for Promotional Piracy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:59:56 +0000

[...] Webb pointed me to this article via his blog where he criticizes Croxson’s findings. First things first: last year, I wrote about the [...]

By: david valade

david valade — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:44:13 +0000

Warren has really hit on something with the positive side. Is piracy born out of an unfulfilled opportunity?

Restriction and arbitration have been the traditional tools for content owners. So it seems natural for them to pursue these options initially. While all subversion has a deviant element, I sometimes wonder if a meaningful dialog with those who prefer to pirate a feasible idea? How might it help publishers convert opportunities to $? Extend distribution channels? Reach new audiences?

Or perhaps, shall we bring our eye patches & sabers?

By: Warren Whitlock

Warren Whitlock — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:06:01 +0000

Great discussion here, and perhaps more to the point, it’s a FREE discussion. The value here is not in who owns the ideas.

I’m not a lawyer, but my reading of the law says that no one owns an idea. Put the idea in words, you have copyright.

So while you are discussion the issue of piracy, writing a blog post, you are creating copyrighted material. And now my comment (hopefully) enhances the value of this material.. in real time.

Seem hopeless to think that the laws will ever catch up chasing this rainbow.

The world has changed. Stakeholder who did well under the old rules naturally want to hang on for as long a possible.

The positive side is that there is great power in the new way. Call it piracy, call it freedom.. who cares?

There is great opportunity in the new way.. glad to see you’re here working on that.