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Piracy Studies in India
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 22, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:35 AM
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filed under:
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights
The word ‘piracy’ assumes negative connotations. In the imagination of an ordinary middle class urban Indian it is linked directly to the informal economy, crime and even terrorism. But the ‘pirated good’, that is, the ‘optical disc’ is not seen with a similar perception. The ‘CD’ is the access key to the cultural wealth of music, cinema and software contained inside. This paradox is created in the sphere of information and knowledge that is created by anti-piracy agencies using extensive reports and statistics that are published every year. These statistics often have a tendency to create a feeling of ‘shock and awe’ for the readers that see these numbers splashed across headlines of news and media reports. Till 2004, the creation of numbers conjuring losses up to millions was mostly the domain of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which is now supplemented by reports commissioned to consultancy groups like McKinsey, PWC, and Ernst & Young. This article by Siddharth Chadha traces a few reports that have come to become popular benchmarks of piracy in the past few years.
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Recommendations for the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-Win) platform
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by
Pallavi Bedi
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published
Mar 25, 2021
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last modified
Mar 25, 2021 01:14 PM
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filed under:
Aarogya Setu,
Health Tech,
Piracy,
internet governance,
Healthcare,
e-Governance
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Blog
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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Cable TV Technology for Dummies
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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published
May 11, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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filed under:
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Cable TV
In the fourth entry documenting the making of 'Dark Fibre', a film by Jamie King and Peter Mann, Siddharth Chadha simplifies cable TV technology for the uninitiated.
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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter Mann
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by
Siddharth Chadha
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published
Mar 27, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
Digital Access,
Intellectual Property Rights,
YouTube,
art and intervention,
Piracy,
Open Access,
innovation,
digital artists
Film-makers Jamie King (producer/director of the 'Steal This Film' series) and Peter Mann, in conversation with Siddharth Chadha, on 'Dark Fibre', their latest production, being filmed in Bangalore
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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: The Grey Market Deficit
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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published
Apr 29, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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filed under:
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Cable TV
In this, the third entry in his series discussing the making of 'Dark Fibre' by Jamie King and Peter Mann, Siddharth Chadha gives an overview of piracy in the pay TV industry.
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The 2010 Special 301 Report Is More of the Same, Slightly Less Shrill
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
May 13, 2010
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last modified
Oct 03, 2011 05:37 AM
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filed under:
Development,
Consumer Rights,
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Piracy,
Access to Medicine,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Data Protection,
FLOSS,
Technological Protection Measures,
Publications
Pranesh Prakash examines the numerous flaws in the Special 301 from the Indian perspective, to come to the conclusion that the Indian government should openly refuse to acknowledge such a flawed report. He notes that the Consumers International survey, to which CIS contributed the India report, serves as an effective counter to the Special 301 report.
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The Dark Fibre Files: 'Steal This Film' and the Pirate Bay Trial
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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published
May 21, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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filed under:
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Cable TV
In this posting, the fifth blog entry on the making of the film 'Dark Fibre' by Jamie King and Peter Mann, Siddharth Chadha discusses the Swedish trial of the Pirate Bay, which brought up some of the debates on intellectual property rights and piracy that were highlighted in 'Steal This Film'.
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The Future of the Moving Image
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 10, 2008
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last modified
Nov 11, 2008 09:06 AM
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filed under:
internet and society,
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
YouTube,
internet art,
Cybercultures,
New Pedagogies
All dissimilar technologies are the same in their own way, but all similar technologies are uniquely different. This was probably at the core of the zeitgeist at the international seminar on “The Future of Celluloid” hosted by the Media Lab at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, at which Nishant Shah, Director - Research CIS, presented a research paper. Practitioners, film makers, artists, theoreticians and academics, blurring the boundaries of both their roles and their disciplines and areas of interest, came together to move beyond convergence theories – to explore the continuities, conflations, contestations and confusions that Internet Technologies have led to for earlier technologies, but specifically for the technology of the moving image.
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Twists and turns of the SOPA opera
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 16, 2012
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filed under:
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights
Proposed DNS filtering threatens the core protocol on which the Internet's universality depends, writes Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on 15 January 2012. Sunil Abraham is quoted in this.
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