Probably not the most fitting comparison…

If half the people committed a CIVIL INFRINGEMENT (by violating copyright), it merely makes a statement about the need to examine the applicability and enforceability of copyright – and no physical harm to anyone results.

However, it half the people committed a CRIMINAL ACT (by violating the speed limit), it would significantly raise the number of accidents, resulting in a considerable amount of physical harm to others. Speeding is something that has been proven to be dangerous to yourself and society. That’s why it’s a CRIME, and why there’s a law to enforce it that will NOT be reevaluated for applicability.

I’m all for file sharing.. But I also see that there does have to be a certain amount of restrictions! Spain has a pretty sensible attitude as I see it!

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-copycats-report-has-copycat-problem.html

“Government advisors”: 7 million internet users + what if scenario’s + consultant fee’s + political funding + trips to give away + golf memberships + politician’s wives getting consultancy fee’s + travel expenses + propaganda expenses + making up lost retail sales figures + hiring the Conference Board of Canada to publish made up data and copy bullshit = $21 billion dollars annually

I thought if you save some of your budget for something then you spent it on something else like a new car or on a holly day trip!

So should the car industry not better sue the imaginary property (IP) industry for that because of their obnoxious bribing of politicos all over the world the people are too scared to share imaginary property with each other at no cost and spend the money on real property like new cars instead?

I thought car makers are in a crisis too?

For instance, most Japanese Anime was never intended for sale outside Japan, but it became so popular among internet “thieves” around the world that now Japan is making a fortune licensing and selling Anime worldwide — money that they would not be making had piracy not introduced Anime to the online (non-Japanese) world, thereby establishing a market and demand for the product — which the anime industry was happy to step in and fill, as this ready-made market obviously saved them a fortune in advertising, promotion, and marketing costs.

This situation has been repeated with many types of entertainment media, resulting in movies, TV shows, music, and more, being sold in countries where piracy alone has created an unexpected consumer demand.

Has the entertainment media industry – or any government agency they influence – ever calculated the value of this “piracy as a free marketing tool” phenomenon? Or would they prefer to deny its very existence?

Did you read the opening paragraph to that BS BBC article?

“Researchers found 1.3m people using one file-sharing network on one weekday and estimated that over a year they had free access to material worth £12bn.”

How many were ACTUALLY downloading warez out of that?

See this is how they make up their fictitious numbers.

Any type of P2P protocol = theft. And they put a dollar value on that of $21 billion dollars annually.

There was no mention how they determined those values. Its all fabricated hocus pocus.

650 million canadians? heh

33,212,696 (July 2008 estimnate)

Cheers!

That’s almost enough to buy a meeting with say… Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement, or Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore, or Meetings with senior officials at Prime Minister’s Office, Justice, Heritage, and Industry, or Canadian Industry Parliamentary Secretary Mike Lake, or senior officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Maybe you would have change left over for an apple pie.

18 billion chinese, 650 million canadians and over 900 million americans are file sharing, including the brits, thats over 310% of the population of the world. even unborn babies in Nigeria are file sharing !!!

the apocolypse is nigh !!

/rant

stw

Besides, we all know that if you couldn’t go download Milli Vanilli tunes for free, we would all go out and buy it. That’s money lost