Copyright coalition: piracy more serious than burglary, fraud, bank robbery

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  • admin
    Administrator
    • Nov 2001
    • 8957

    Copyright coalition: piracy more serious than burglary, fraud, bank robbery



    So instead of chasing bank robbers, the police should be chasing people who download Ocean's Thirteen?
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  • Gary D
    Lord of Digital Video
    Lord of Digital Video
    • Dec 2005
    • 2266

    #2
    And that is what they keep telling us Canucks:



    which links to the same story but different supplier:



    But I ask the question why when we are their fastest growing market??? :

    Canada Ranked as Hollywood's Fastest Growing Market
    Gary D

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    • jm1647
      An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
      • Apr 2005
      • 3661

      #3
      From the link:

      "NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton suggests that society wastes entirely too much money policing crimes like burglary, fraud, and bank-robbing, when it should be doing something about piracy instead."

      Hmmm.... I would to see how Rick Cotton would react if his home was burglarized, his bank account wiped out thru fraud, and he was in a bank when someone was robbing it and pointing a gun at him

      What's the next suggestion, stop looking for rapists and look for those uploading Jack The Ripper . Like the article says peoples lives are traumatized during these acts while piracy does cost people money but that is all

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      • admin
        Administrator
        • Nov 2001
        • 8957

        #4
        They are taking into account "estimated" loss of revenue when they are talking about copyright theft, there is no way to actually calculate the actual lost revenue. How can you say that just because someone downloaded a movie that they would otherwise have paid to see the movie? I know people who pay to see movies, and then download them, or download them and then pay for the DVD later on - so is that taken into account?

        But if you look at DVD sales before and after CSS was cracked, then you might think not only was there no lost revenue, there was actually a gain. It makes sense sort of - DVD is cracked, people buy standalones because they think they can now get cheap/free movies, after a while, they decide it wasn't worth the trouble and start buying legal versions. Also, once the DVD is copied to the hard-drive, developers can start developing free applications for it (authoring, playback, conversion), which lead to the popularity of DVD-ROM drive, and later DVD writer drives ... it all helps.

        Same with TV shows - if shows like Lost and Battlestar aren't downloaded so much online, would it have gathered as much interest? The TV stations that aren't screening the shows on time do lose out (eg. in Australia, we are anywhere between a couple of weeks to a couple of months behind the US screening schedule), unfortunately, but that's because their model of content delivery is beginning to look outdated - if they screened the show at the same time world wide, or offered video-on-demand, especially in HD, then I'm sure people won't download episodes anymore.
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