All Entries Tagged With: "DigiRights Solutions"
Pigs Fly – Music Biz Disses Shysters
Shy’ster n. 1. A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. – Webster’s Dictionary
Last October I wrote about the German firm DigiRights Solutions (DRS) that was pushing a scheme that would turn busting file sharers into a profit center for content owners. Naturally [...]
German Anti-Piracy Firm Makes Case For Extortion
The guys at Torrentfreak do a terrific job of covering the torrent and p2p scene. I’m always amazed at the stories they break and the excellent writing. And if I understand it correctly, they do it in their spare time when not at their day jobs.
Last weekend they broke another story that I found particularly [...]







Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...


