http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/fight-sopa-pipa.html Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:14:23 +0000 Online protests have worked well, but will the corporate interests behind the copyright lobby let it rest?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/what-will-happen-if-sopa-succeeds.html Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:40:59 +0000 Dan Gillmor says that we need to stop the new laws or the web really will go dark.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/sopa-stop-online-piracy-act.html Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:30:49 +0000 The "Stop Online Piracy Act" may put a damper on creative web content production and perhaps even free speech.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/spotify-is-finally-profiting-headlines.html Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:27:48 +0000 Spotify's announcement of profits in 2010 might be a sign that the music industry has a chance against piracy.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/sir-martin-sorell-of-wpp-blacklists-2000-piracy-allowing-us-websites.html Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:08:20 +0000 Sir Martin Sorrell's media buying arm GroupM to stop clients' ads appearing on sites carrying pirated content.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/googles-youtube-policy-for-android-users-is-copyright-extremism.html Tue, 31 May 2011 14:19:34 +0000 Denying access to pay-per-view videos for those who modify their Android devices is the antithesis of openness.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/in-new-media-age-uk-to-reconsider-copyright-law.html Wed, 18 May 2011 09:00:37 +0000 Report will recommend amending the rules around "format shifting", leaving the industry and government free to focus on issues such as tackling web piracy.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/new-book-hits-1-on-amazon-with-the-help-of-piracy.html Tue, 17 May 2011 16:15:54 +0000 A new children's book is already enjoying tremendous success because it was pirated earlier this year.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/netflix-beats-comcast-pirates-with-spectacular-growth.html Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:29:18 +0000 Netflix's DVD delivery and streaming service is on its way to becoming the number one way Americans consume media. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/garrys-mod-turns-the-game-against-the-pirates.html Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:12:56 +0000 For all the serious cash poured into preventing software piracy through security programs and increasingly complicated DRM, sometimes the simplest methods can be the most effective.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/francis-ford-coppola-reflects-on-risk-technology-art.html Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:12:31 +0000 The acclaimed director explains the importance of risks to individual fulfillment and success.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/a-new-manifesto-claims-piracy-will-end-if-the-industry-adapts.html Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:44:25 +0000 Don't Make Me Steal was born out of a workshop at the Lift11 Conference in early February that featured professionals from various industries discussing how to end piracy the "right way." ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/monocolumn-pressure-builds-to-fight-the-pirates.html Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:03:47 +0000 The International Maritime Organization (IMO) yesterday launched its global initiative to “orchestrate the response” to piracy off the Horn of Africa. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/global-digital-music-sales-slowing-despite-piracy-crackdown.html Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:01:43 +0000 Industry looks to subscription services such as Spotify to help reverse drop in total worldwide music sales of up to 9% in 2010]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/monocolumn-piracy-%e2%80%93-a-land-based-problem.html Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:53:12 +0000 A British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates while sailing their yacht in the Indian Ocean, were released yesterday after just over a year in captivity. But their ordeal also highlights the futility of the international anti-piracy naval taskforce, which has been in operation off the Somali coast for the past two years.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/technology-harvests-emotions-of-movie-watching-audience.html Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:49:40 +0000 A new technology will be able to monitor reactions and movement in a movie theatre.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/how-to-increase-sales-using-4chan-and-bootlegged-material.html Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:16:02 +0000 Piracy may not be so bad after all, as comic book artist Steve Lieber discovered recently. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/chinese-shanzhai-industry-may-be-leading-consumer-electronics-innovation.html Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:49:13 +0000 The manufacturers of counterfeit products may in fact be pushing technological development faster then legitimate companies.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/hyperlocal-peer-to-peer-piracy.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:45:47 +0000 The Pirate Kiosk is a local and public backup of the Pirate Bay's torrent catalog broadcast from a WiFi router, allowing peer-to-peer file sharing without the need for the internet. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/pirate-bay-sold-for-78-million.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:24:49 +0000 A few days ago The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, announced that it has been sold to the Swedish software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB for almost 8 million dollars.  According to a Pirate Bay blog post, the surprisingly influential owners of the piracy site will be passing the reigns to the new owners without altering the core policies of mocking legal threats and carrying out the most expansive piracy sites on the net.  Last month, the so-called “Pirate Party” even captured a Swedish seat in the European Union’s Parliament which points to the power of PirateRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/music-piracy-may-actually-help-sales.html Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:03:38 +0000 A study from the BI Norwegian School of Management has discovered that illegal music downloaders may not be as detrimental to record companies’ bottom line as previously thought. The research examined the buying habits of 2,000  online music users, and found that those who downloaded tracks for free (both legally and illegally), were 10 times more likely to pay for music. The subjects often said that the freely gotten music was used to inform their subsequent purchases. [via The Guardian and Ars Technica] Photo by: Fredrik Persson/Scanpix/PA]]>