MetaFilter posts tagged with copying

The Internet is a Copy Machine

ErWenn — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:51:31 -0800

"When copies are free, you need to sell things which cannot be copied." Kevin Kelly (previously) describes eight "generative" values that increase in value as the price tag on making copies goes down. He also has some advice for creators who want to make money off the long tail. Via

Save Betamax

seanyboy — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 04:42:43 -0800

Save Betamax.

DVD X Copy, rest in peace.

JakeEXTREME — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:00:06 -0800

Feds rule that DVD X Copy is now illegal. What will become of other DVD burning software? The MPAA considers a major victory, but are the people who may use it legitimately getting the shaft, or will we see an increase in recovery outfits?

jedro — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:24:13 -0800

Interesting article from The Guardian discussing the fact that people seem willing to pay for annoying ringtones, but seem unwilling to pay for near-CD-quality music. Unfortunately it doesn't really address the question of "why?"

matteo — Sat, 05 May 2001 08:52:33 -0800

Program Catches Copycat Students "A professor at the University of Virginia has nabbed 122 students for plagiarism using a computer program he wrote himself". This really sucks, doesn't it?

mathowie — Thu, 11 Nov 1999 07:07:27 -0800

From Today's Suck.com, comes the story of plagiaraism.org, a service that checks papers against a huge database of online essays and automatically highlights stolen passages from internet essays, then quantifies the plagiaism by giving every paper an 'originality index.' This looks like a cool application of technology if it really works.