Showing posts with label Piracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piracy. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Piracy economics and mitigation

The cat and mouse evolution between the sophistication of the pirates and the innovation in mitigation goes on. Geopolicity have a paper on piracy economics:

http://www.geopolicity.com/upload/content/pub_1305229189_regular.pdf

It’s more involved than one might think. And pirates have been upping the game and showing uncommon solidarity with their peers:

http://www.wired.com/2011/04/pirates-to-india-this-time-its-personal/

Discovery News also have an article on Piracy Attack Risk Surface (PARS), a model developed by the US Navy to predict piracy hotspots:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/anti-pirate-software-navy-110523.htm

I still find it somewhat difficult to believe that amazingly, piracy has returned as a facet of our modern lives:

http://www.southparkstudios.co.uk/clips/225458/somalian-pirates-we