Kakao Reveals Anti-Piracy Successes, Legal Action Against Major Manga SitesAndy Maxwell, 21 Aug 08:48 AM For companies reliant on sales of digital p
 | For companies reliant on sales of digital products delivered via the internet, any level of success is likely to face not just unlicensed competition, but rivals offering identical products with a price tag marked 'free'. How to tackle this threat depends on the product, the audience, and the location and nature of pirate sites and services active in the niche. Current thinking suggests that companies with synergies can benefit by pooling resources, with the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment perhaps the most obvious example. Kakao Entertainment's approach to content protection is somewhat more bespoke. The company's 'P.CoK' anti-piracy unit stands out for engaging pirates head-on. Most visible on social media, P.CoK claims to recruit webtoon fans as undercover operatives and recently offered rewards for those willing to blow pirates' cover. Kakao's latest anti-piracy report reveals the results of various initiatives for the first six months of 2024. P.CoK Anti-Piracy Whitep...Read More | The inception and early years of The Pirate Bay are an intriguing chapter of the Internet's history. While most pirate site operators hid in the shadows, Pirate Bay's founders were public figures who openly taunted the entertainment industries. This chapter didn't end as planned for Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Gotffrid Svartholm, who were eventually sentenced to prison. By then, however, they had already sparked a digital and political revolution, the impact of which is still felt today. Some have argued that without the meteoric rise of the notorious torrent site, the entertainment industries would not have embraced services such as Netflix and Spotify so easily. Pirate Bay TV Series A few years ago, news broke that The Pirate Bay story was being turned into a TV series. Written by Piotr Marciniak and directed by Jens Sjögren, who also made the "I am Zlatan" documentary, production was in the hands of B-Reel Films, working for the Swedish broadcaster SVT. American distributio...Read More | For many traditional newspapers reliant on sales of a physical product, the rise of the internet as an integrated publishing, distribution, and content consumption platform, disrupted almost everything. With new opportunities came new challenges. Popularity of free-to-consume digital versions had a tendency to cannibalize print sales. Advertising revenue that once kept digital publications online, later began to diminish. That was partly explained by the rise of browser-based ad blocking software, itself a response to the rise of aggressive and intrusive advertising. When publications of all kinds began putting content behind paywalls, accessible only by those with a paid subscription, that helped some publications to survive, even thrive in some cases. For readers unable or unwilling to commit to a subscription, technical solutions were available. Bypass Paywalls Clean (BPC) is probably the most famous of them all. Publishers Run Out Of Patience Available for Chrome and Firefox, B...Read More |
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