AP Looks at Piracy, Misses the Point

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday July 5, 2006 @07:53AM from the toeing-the-line dept.

TechDirt is reporting that the Associated Press has covered several stories recently about what a "huge threat" piracy is in other countries. This article, however, argues that they have perhaps missed out on the whole story by ignoring the other side of the coin. From the article: "the AP doesn't bother to mention how all that piracy helped created new and different business models for musicians in China that let them thrive despite the piracy (actually, in some cases, because of it). Nor does the AP bother to mention how software piracy helped boost certain aspects of the industry in China by decreasing the cost of inputs."

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Completely off topic by Turn-X+Alphonse · 2006-07-05 07:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Completely off topic post but slashdots probably the best place to ask. You can take my karma in payment for it if you wish.

Does anyone know a program to record guild wars which will run on windows 98 please?

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