Comments on: Pirates bugging you? Get more efficient http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Pirate Bay is Napster times ten - - mathewingram.com/work http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/comment-page-1/#comment-336793 Pirate Bay is Napster times ten - - mathewingram.com/work Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:54:47 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/#comment-336793 [...] pirates? I don’t think so. I think that media industries of all kinds are dealing with what author Matt Mason calls The Pirate’s [...] [...] pirates? I don’t think so. I think that media industries of all kinds are dealing with what author Matt Mason calls The Pirate’s [...]

]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/comment-page-1/#comment-374884 mathewi Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:00:01 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/#comment-374884 There's a comment in this Fortune piece<br>(<a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134488/" rel="nofollow">http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_...</a>)<br>about how tolerating piracy was the best move Microsoft ever made in<br>China, and the quote I'm thinking of appeared in an LA Times story<br>that is posted here:<br><a href="http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=452150&mode=threaded" rel="nofollow">http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic...</a> There's a comment in this Fortune piece
(http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_…)
about how tolerating piracy was the best move Microsoft ever made in
China, and the quote I'm thinking of appeared in an LA Times story
that is posted here:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic…

]]> By: antje http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/comment-page-1/#comment-374883 antje Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:48:43 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/#comment-374883 M - really? Do you by chance recall where that might have been (dag he's softening in his old age... lol). My Indian colleagues tell me that MSFT is one of the biggest proponents and supporters of the piracy police via the government and continues to push them to crackdown, but then again many of them are the same folks who like to bash MSFT for all the evils in the world. M – really? Do you by chance recall where that might have been (dag he's softening in his old age… lol). My Indian colleagues tell me that MSFT is one of the biggest proponents and supporters of the piracy police via the government and continues to push them to crackdown, but then again many of them are the same folks who like to bash MSFT for all the evils in the world.

]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/comment-page-1/#comment-374882 mathewi Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:11:02 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/#comment-374882 Thanks for the link, Antje -- I think your boss makes a good point<br>about the disparities between the developed world and the<br>less-developed world when it comes to pricing. The problem, as she<br>points out, is that if there were different prices then everyone would<br>want the cheaper version.<br><br>On a related note, I came across a quote from Bill Gates awhile back<br>in which he said that piracy in China and India didn't really bother<br>him, because he saw it as kind of a trial program, and that he<br>expected eventually those people would wind up buying the real thing. Thanks for the link, Antje — I think your boss makes a good point
about the disparities between the developed world and the
less-developed world when it comes to pricing. The problem, as she
points out, is that if there were different prices then everyone would
want the cheaper version.

On a related note, I came across a quote from Bill Gates awhile back
in which he said that piracy in China and India didn't really bother
him, because he saw it as kind of a trial program, and that he
expected eventually those people would wind up buying the real thing.

]]> By: Linker Barn: Friday, January 11 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/comment-page-1/#comment-336553 Linker Barn: Friday, January 11 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:35:42 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/10/pirates-bugging-you-get-more-efficient/#comment-336553 [...] Radio piracy as sign of inefficient markets. [...] [...] Radio piracy as sign of inefficient markets. [...]

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