Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! While talking like a pirate (“Ahoy, matey!”) might be fun and games, ACTING like a pirate by stealing or sharing music, movies, and software is not. Many people think that piracy is an issue that only affects large software, music, and movie companies, but as we have seen from recent reports, small- and medium-sized businesses are preyed upon as well.
The Business Software Alliance’s new impact study on software piracy was released this week and we’re happy to see that it supports what we’ve been saying all along: protecting IP means creating jobs.
As this cartoon points out, the iPhone apps business isn’t all fame and fortune. Customers who don’t hesitate spending $5 on a quick, fancy cup of coffee think twice before paying less than a quarter of that for an app that may give them hours or days of enjoyment and [...]
At ACT, we’ve taken great interest in the media coverage of a possible pending broadband deal between Verizon and Google. While we know nothing more than what’s been reported in the news, this appears to be an interesting development in the net neutrality debate. Advocates of net neutrality have differing [...]
ACT submitted comments this week to the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its proposed new rule to increase transparency in the Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) market. ACT supports added transparency in reporting of the Assets-Backed Securities market, but is concerned that specific elements of the proposal could backfire. The SEC’s planned [...]