There are three fundamental forms of piracy, music piracy, software piracy, and movie piracy. Did you know that Netflix uses Piracy Figures to decide which shows to buy next? Piracy numbers are sky rocketing from year to year with the highest figures being file sharing. In fact, 31 out of 34 films were released online in some form, the average amount of time it takes from when a movie comes out until it shows up on the internet is approximately 12 days. 70% of online users find nothing wrong with digital piracy and 67% of piracy sites are hosted in North America and Western Europe. Piracy is well on the rise and readily available and easy to access. Although piracy is on the up-rise, so is recent developments and cases to prevent it. Recent studies show that since Napster came about in 1999, music sales in our country have dropped 53%. In a five year period from 2004 to 2009 approximately 30 billion songs were downloaded from a file sharing network. As of recently government is considering new approaches to digital piracy and copyright laws.
Many
bands and newer TV shows such as House of Cards and Radiohead allow people to
download their programs and music for free online. In 2010 there was measured 3/690
petabytes of infringing contents the vast majority of BitTorrent sites make
money through advertising. All of these
sites will have banner adverts, pop-up adverts, and typically they have adverts
of all kinds, for casinos, dating sites, and even download managers. Recently, google placed USD 900 million bid
for Nortel’s portfolio of 6000 patents. Wall
Street Journal headlines about Federal prosecutors pursuing digital piracy with
many different cases. They also talk about how many other countries are working
on fighting off digital piracy as well.
Overall Digital Piracy is becoming a big threat to our country. Of January 2014, Google has received its 100
millionth piracy notice. Google with a
market of more than 370 billion dollars has directed internet users to illegal
sources of music for years, harming more than 500 licensed digital music
services worldwide.
Resources:
http://insurance.laws.com/online-piracy
http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/online-piracy/
http://piracy.web.unc.edu/factsfigures/
http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy-online-scope-of-the-problem
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2014/s4085062.htm
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/10/21/studymediapiracy
http://topics.wsj.com/subject/D/digital-piracy/2448
