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Via ArsTechnica I found this interesting story about videogames developer and entrapreneur Chris Harris (from Positech Games).

Through his blog he asked the pirates to tell him why they pirate games. They answered and Chris found out the main reasons are:

1. The information wants to/free anarchists think copyright shouldn't exist.
2. Games are too expensive.
3. The quality of gaming is too uneven.
4. DRM is hurting the legitimate customers.
5. Going to the shops is annoying.
6. Because piracy is easy to do with low risk for getting caught.

Want to know which moves took Chris after the survey? He completely dumped DRM from his games and he'll cut down the prices too.

I'm really curious to read some future results of his moves but I think he dealt with piracy in the best way he could: thinking of pirates as competitors and find some really smart business solutions.

If you're interested on this topic, take a look also at the book "The Pirate's Dilemma".

San Fermo... il protettore di tutti i motociclisti! :)
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San Fermo... il protettore di tutti i motociclisti! :)

Some links I collected during this 56k 2008 Summer.

After the jump, so move your ass away from google reader and read those bullet points below. :)

I don't know if this book ("La solitudine dei numeri primi", "The loneliness of prime numbers") by Paolo Giordano is going to be translated in english, but if you read italian I think you should buy it.

Anyway, after the jump a quotation from the book I finished to read yesterday.

600mb sta minchia
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Here highlighted the bandwidth usage after a 2 hour usage of ONLY gmail and google reader: 32mb downloaded and 6,5mb in upload.
I was using a 56kbps connection, so I avoided to load heavy feeds like gizmodo or bigpicture, due the usage of pictures in the posts.

Just to answer to the dumb-asses at vodafone italy whose some weeks ago explained us that an insane expansive data plan [1] for the new iphone 3G, providing 600mb per month, is more than appropriate. [2]

[1] http://www.orangeek.org/archive/2008/07/02/Italian_providers_and_iPhone_3
[2] http://lab.vodafone.it/blog/lab/entry/600mb