You can tell how popular something is, too, by how much it gets pirated.
"I got a company, Rosetta Stone, who gets pirated on a regular basis -- you've gotta have accountability around that," says Warner, referring to the language-learning software company with offices in Arlington and Harrisonburg, Va.
Struggling writers, for their part, want to get pirated — it's a sign they've arrived.
Cathy Barrett, director of strategic marketing for Nettwerk, said the deal puts the label in an awkward position because the site is promoting the music of BT, but with a single click of the mouse, users can get pirated versions of BT's songs for free through Scour.
But the 30 plaintiffs in the Scour lawsuit including Twentieth Century Fox, the Walt Disney Co. dis and Sire Records–say that plenty of others are using it to get pirated music and movies.
China has stopped importing American DVDs for the same reason you've stopped buying them at Target: it's way easier and cheaper to get pirated copies on the Internet.
It's starting way behind in the music streaming race, it has no free ad-supported tier to pull in users to pay $10 a month, few will pay $20 for HD sound, and its top exclusives get pirated.
Thomas's writing is sharp and energetic, and she has to be congratulated for getting pirate treasure, cryptoanalysis, a cake recipe and some incisive asides to explain mathematical conundrums such as the Riemann hypothesis into one narrative.
Hayu, which will offer the majority of its US shows on the service the same day as their first airing in the US, was in part an attempt to get pirates to turn to a legal service.
Bristol lead 13-9 at half-time before Kieran Hallett's fourth penalty got Pirates within a point after the break.
I talked to Kalle Vedin, member of the Gothenburg section of the Swedish Pirate Party--which people who are not Swedes may dismiss since they've got "Pirate" in the name and pirates are fucking annoying, but this is a legitimate political movement with 40,000 members and the largest youth contingent of any political party in Sweden.
