Freemium Is The New Piracy In The SaaS World
It is estimated that approximately 41% of revenue, close to $53 billion, is “lost” in software piracy. This number is totally misleading since it assumes that all the people who knowingly or unknowingly pirated software would have bought the software at the published price had they not pirated it. RIAA also applies the same nonsense [...]
Massive Bittorrent Site Closures in China
The Chinese government has been busily shutting down Bittorrent sharing sites over the last 10 days causing a rush to download across China according to Sina. The rush to download has degraded Bittorrent services with the remaining servers that are still up and running. As the largest BT download website in China with 5 million [...]
Do Not Copy That Floppy – Version Two Surfaces
One of the hall mark anti-piracy ads from the 1980’s was “Don’t Copy that Floppy” sung by MC Double Def DP (data protection). While copying programs, movies and music has exponentially grown from its humble floppy disk beginnings the SIIA (Software & Information Industry Alliance) has also stated a word of mouth campaign, reintroducing DP [...]
SaaS – Password Sharing and Piracy
Image by orangeek via Flickr Last week, I wrote a post in which I argued that SaaS will reduce software piracy. In this post, I am going to talk about an issue that is culturally important in many countries. Rather, I am going to raise an important question which SaaS vendors should ponder as they plan to extend [...]
