Copyright

New ways to fight digital piracy

New ways to stop digital piracy without annoying paying customers

Posted on by majesticjam

There is nothing to do with piracy. After multiple unsuccessful attempts to fight with this phenomenon by calling infringers for the law-abiding, companies have turned to Digital Right Management (DRM) that slightly ‘slow pirates and annoys paying customers’ (Bellamy, 2012). Taking into account that DRM doesn’t work, it also significantly limits turns any technology into[…]

Copyright relevance

Should Copyright law change in the digital age?

Posted on by majesticjam

Taking into account that the last major change to copyright legislation took place in 1980s – the era of the Betamax and personal cassette recorder – and now almost all the data is created and stored in a digital form, copyright definitely needs modernisation (White, 2012). Most of the copyright laws are considered to be[…]