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
Ultimately, there is little that can effectively be done to combat digital piracy through enforcement. Smart business people won't bother worrying about it and instead, will focus on developing services and customer relationships necessary to overcome price concerns. For example, smart musicians will release their music for free because they don't make a living selling their music through labels. They're primary income is from live performances, the experience of which can't be effectively bootlegged. By the way, while records sells are down, the live performance segment of the music industry has never been better.
ReplyDeleteEven high-end information marketers who sell digital products for thousands of dollars don't worry about the handful of people who pirate their stuff because those people overwhelmingly represent people who are not customers under any circumstance. In other words, non-buyers are non buyers.
I'm interested if there have been any studies exploring the relationship between the percentage of the population that pirates the majority of digital goods and the percentage of the population that are non-buyers by personality type. I believe they are largely one and the same, and if so, then it makes no sense wasting resources preventing these people from having what it costs a business nothing for them to have because these are digital products.
i agree on your statement when you said that the songs should be released for free.
DeleteCouldn't agree more!
DeleteThat is an interesting fact that musicians make most of their income through live performances rather than labels. I mean I knew they made alot through performances but I would have thought it was about 50/50 between CD albums and live performances. As you sort of referenced to, if a business get pirated via CDs they would lose more money than pirated via digital goods because they can continue to sell the digital copies over and over while the CD sell to one person at a time.
ReplyDeleteThese are great comments you guys brought up great points. I agree with both of you.
ReplyDeleteI thought the fact that Netflix uses piracy figures to decide which shows to buy next is a PHENOMENAL marketing strategy!! Wow!
ReplyDeleteit is crazy. crazy to know that something bad like piracy can help other businesses such as netflix
Deleteeach year file sharing is higher than global consumer ip. that is interesting
ReplyDeleteI wonder why that is?
DeleteThe problem with file sharing is the amount of data it consumes. ISP's are beginning to throttle connections based on your consumption of bandwidth. This practice is totally unwarranted and needs to stop.
ReplyDeleteI just don't see how piracy is ever going to be shut down or stopped. I found it really amazing that most of it happens in the US, I wouldn't have guessed. To what point do y'all think they could stop it or do you think there could be a more efficient way to mandate or run these piracies?
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