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The Hunt for Billy Joel and GAME-ON-DUDE

By Tom Koltai

  OR <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  Why the Music Industry is Losing Money…..   Whilst researching statistics for an article I am doing, I came across a little historical gem.   The first CD ever issued back in 1982 was “<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />52nd Street” by Billy [...]

How Copyright became the number one item on your Governments Todo list.

By Tom Koltai

Setting the Scene.   Consultants are people/firms that are hired to divorce an organisations internal politics from a result and quite often, consultants bring with them a differential focused expertise in the area requiring their expert attention.   There’s an accepted modus operandi for consultancy firms in business, “When you get hired, look for more [...]

Lets Talk about P2P Damages, Coffee and Bulldust

By Tom Koltai

Last Friday in a Swedish Court, the four pirates were awarded four years of jail time and financial damages against them (for running a Google search engine) of over three million dollars.   In February three Thai CD Pirates were handed out jail sentences under a year each and fined $14,200 each for pressing 306 [...]

Chess Politics Heritage & History

By Tom Koltai

Chess Politics Heritage & History   Europe is invariably the western worlds Tourist Mecca. The combination of multiple civilizations, cuisines, objects d’art and other intellectual and historical candy, acts as a powerful magnet to the worlds middle class and of course the college student backpackers, seeking the meaning of life.   But the multiple borders [...]