The Music Industry continuously claims that it has been harmed by file sharing. Yet it has also, failed to provide empirical evidence of the actual damage.   Whilst we disagree with their modus operandi in criminalizing their consumers, we do find that there would appear to be a difference in the reality of music sales [...]

Infringement is one of those things that generates enormous amounts of ink because it is inherently paradoxical. For the most part I believe that infringement happens unwittingly. Then there is the amount that happens with premeditation. And thirdly there is the infringement that takes place initially unwittingly, but then the perpetrators, when discovered try to [...]

Super Vectors   I was watching an episode of The Wire last night (last episode of Series 3). In it we see the denouement of an experiment in social engineering. The story, which evolves over a number of episodes, is of one of the senior police getting an idea of how to reduce the murder [...]