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Copyright Law – An Australian Political Perspective

by Scott Kane on September 7, 2009 in 30Dayers, Anti-Piracy, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Ordinarily I keep my political activities seperate to this blog. However I published an article today, on copyright, that may be of interest to developers and Micro ISV’s, particularly those residing in Australia.It doesn’t state anything we haven’t heard many times before, as developers, but it is an opening gambit, in the public political sense, of mine on this issue. The objective is to raise awareness overtime and hopefully nip in the bud certain subversive influences I’m aware of, in the political scene here in Australia, in relation to this issue.

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Theft Of IP – That Rhymes With SoftSea – AKA Download Site Scum – Download Site Bastards

Theft Of IP – That Rhymes With SoftSea – AKA Download Site Scum – Download Site Bastards

by Scott Kane on July 11, 2009 in 30Dayers, Anti-Piracy, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

But this doesn’t come close to SoftSea – apparently the crème of the crud.

SoftSea decided they’d be “original” and rather than copy the Download.com text for the listing, like the other unimaginative excuses for homo sapiens, SoftSea instead ripped the content off my home page. Proving to me that the site is run by human garbage of the worst kind – Intellectual Property thieves.

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Doing Things Differently – Online As A Micro ISV With Integrated Marketing

Doing Things Differently – Online As A Micro ISV With Integrated Marketing

by Scott Kane on June 28, 2009 in 30Dayers, Anti-Piracy, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Being a “micro” anything tends to be a tough road to hoe. Software, where micro is actually pretty common, is no different. On this blog I frequently toss established wisdom out the window, throw the baby out with the grey and sullied bathwater of software history and in general take careful aim at the standard Micro ISV marketing techniques – and fire…

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CDROO Launched – A Micro ISV Resource For Royalty Free Music And Sound + An Offer To Readers

CDROO Launched – A Micro ISV Resource For Royalty Free Music And Sound + An Offer To Readers

by Scott Kane on June 8, 2009 in .net, 30Dayers, Anti-Piracy, Audio Software, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, Windows, bootstrap isv

CDROO is a store that sells royalty free music and sound effects. This basically means that when you need a piece of music or special effect for a video, podcast, voice over or training tool you are able to buy professionally recorded music without having to worry about the complexities of obtaining performance rights.

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It's Not Just A Copy It's A Crime – SIAA – Hacks Cracks Serialz Keygen Torrent Peer To Peer

by Scott Kane on May 9, 2009 in 30Dayers, Anti-Piracy, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

The SIAA (formerly SPA) have resurrected, brushed down and revamped for Gen Y their “It’s Not Just A Copy” campaign circa 1992 for 2009. See the video below.  The idea is to slickly put it towards the community at large that it’s a crime to copy, which includes hacks, cracks, torrent files, serial or serialz, [...]

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