Eamonn Carey: Subscription costs have gotten too high
Illegal downloads are on the rise due to the greed of companies seeking to increase subscription costs. Maybe it’s time for a rethink, says Eamonn Carey
Remember when home taping killed music?
Anti-piracy campaigns are a hoot. The infamous 2004 ‘you wouldn’t steal a car’ ad was on every DVD I rented from Xtravision. It did little to combat the issue at hand, but it did lead to a ripe harvest of memes and a great two-minute sketch in the IT Crowd a few years later. Oddly enough, a paper published in The Information Society suggested that these campaigns had the ...