Piracy

Feb 6 2012

Piracy is a good thing? Rovio seems to think so.

While there are many agencies and groups which take a hard line against any kind of piracy, including the SBA, RIAA, amond others, there seems to be one company now that actually thinks it is a good thing to some extent.

Rovio, the maker of the popular game Angry Birds seems to be taking a page from the MS-Dos 1.0 book and saying that the piracy is actually growing their business more than it is hurting it.  According to Rovio CEO, Mikael Hed, “We took something from the music industry, which was to stop treating the customers as users, and start treating them as fans. We do that today: we talk about how many fans we have. If we lose that fanbase, our business is done, but if we can grow that fanbase, our business will grow.”

Of course, with Angry Birds still remaining one of the most popular games ever on any platform, Rovio can really continue what they are doing as their “fan base” is really heating up the Apple store with all the variations of the original game that Rovio now offers.

Source: The Guardian

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Jul 1 1978

An A.P.P.L.E. Editorial

By Val J. Golding

A problem that arises in any such organization as A.P.P.L.E. is that of “Bootlegging programs.” We have a number of programs in our personal library which we have purchased from a software vendor,and when a friend says: “Gosh, that’s a neat program .. will you run me a copy off?”, we have to decline. Not because we don’t want to pass the program on, but because we happen to believe that the author / owner of software is entitled to remuneration for his efforts, which is not possible when a program is freely duplicated and passed from person to person. This is why the author has placed a copyright line somewhere in the program.

Our club policy is oriented towards providing the membership with a maximum amount of software at the lowest possible cost, but this does not include adding programs for sale to our library unless we can make an agreement with a vendor to distribute his program, which we have done in some cases.

We would like to discourage from the outset the practice of duplicating, either on tape or printout, programs that carry copyright restrictions. We will not knowingly tolerate, or be a party to such practices.

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