Jay Marcyes

One of the best, most sensible writeups on piracy and the PC gaming market.

Great article, and a follow-up,from 2002-2003 about peer-2-peer and music downloading, my favorite quotes:

Again, from personal experience: in 37 years as a recording artist, I've created 25+ albums for major labels, and

I've never once received a royalty check that didn't show I owed them money.

and...

I read a report recently showing that in the heyday of Napster, if record companies had agreed to charge just a nickel a download, they would have been splitting $500,000 a day, 24 hours a day, 52 weeks a year.

Just goes to show you how complex and unmanageable our copyright law is when a giant media company can claim infringement and then use other infringing content to provide video on their own blogs.