The price of policing piracy

Copyright Implementation of the U.K.’s already delayed Digital Economy Act is likely to be postponed again, this time until at least 2012. Two of England’s largest ISPs,  British Telecom and TalkTalk plan to challenge the law in court on Wednesday on grounds that it’s proposed curbs on file-sharing violate users’ basic rights and received inadequate Read More …

Dissing disintermediation

Online Video Needham Insights analyst Laura Martin and colleagues are out with an interesting report this week comparing and contrasting the demand curves for analog and digital entertainment goods, and the pricing implications of each. According to their analysis, demand for entertainment goods in the analog world, in this case consumers’ willingness to subscribe to Read More …