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Freemium Is The New Piracy In The SaaS World

Freemium Is The New Piracy In The SaaS World

By Chirag Mehta on September 7, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Software Alliance, cloud computing, Copyright infringement, freemium, Piracy, saas

Massive Bittorrent Site Closures in China

Massive Bittorrent Site Closures in China

By Dan Morrill on December 11, 2009

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 […]

Posted in General | Tagged BitTorrent, china, Chinese government, File sharing, news, Piracy, politics, sad, Technology

Do Not Copy That Floppy – Version Two Surfaces

By Dan Morrill on July 7, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Security | Tagged humor, MC Double Def DP, Piracy, SIIA, video, youtube

SaaS – Password Sharing and Piracy

SaaS – Password Sharing and Piracy

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 14, 2008

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 […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged identity sharing, passwords, Piracy, saas

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