
The Future of Piracy
Where Now?
Between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the
Business Software Alliance (BSA), and the media, you
would think digital piracy has drastically degraded the
quality of our lives. Reports often show lost revenue
amounts in the billions and pirates are literally killing the
Internet and our economy, according to the press. But is
this really the case? Piracy is essentially a new form of
forgery, a digital take on one of the oldest and most
prominent crimes in the history of our civilization.
Forgery can be found in history as early as 670 BC, where
counterfeiters in Lydia first created casts of originally
minted coins, ...