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IP Rights and New Technologies: Pills, Pirates & Sex Dolls

By Cultural Shifts and Eliot Che — March 18th, 2008
Comments on the first panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.



Noise Annoys: Pirate Radio and the Distribution of Music in the Digital Age

By Jim Dooley — March 18th, 2008
Is the music industry changing to the great extent that we all read about? Alternatively, is it fair to say that industry monopolies and forms of cooption are persisting as they always have? These seem to be the two poles in an ongoing debate. My …



Piracy, Copyright and Entertainment in a Digital Age

By Cultural Shifts — March 5th, 2008
Looking at some of the issues behind the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey results.



To Pay or Not to Pay? Selling and Distributing Music Online

By Cultural Shifts — January 4th, 2008
Saul Williams’ most recent album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, has been released online in a high-bitrate mp3 format, giving consumers the choice of downloading the album for free, or paying 5$ for it. Which would you …



The Venue is the Culture?

By Yiu Fai Chow — December 4th, 2007
Allow me to blame the city of Hong Kong. I was born and grew up in Hong Kong. But for the last 15 years, I have been living in the Netherlands, although I am commuting between the two localities pretty frequently. The last time I …