Entertainment cartel fanciful figures
p2pnet news view Movies | Music:- According to Manolo DÃaz, ex-presidente of Sony Music Europa, Universal Music Latino, Emi Music Europa and Grammy Latino, in declarations to the La Prensa newspaper in Panama, Hollywood and Big Music are in dire straits, palm iii tells p2pnet in an email.
Statistics from the entertainment cartels are, of course, about as reliable as DoJ claims of impartiality when it comes to file sharing.
Every time a Hollywood or Big 4 record label unit needs a number, it simply makes one up, hangs it on one or other of the many parasite ‘research’ organisations which live off corporate largess, and the ’statistic’ is regurgitated as-is by the lamescream media just as though it comes from credible and reliable sources.
Now, says palm iii, to get 2009 numbers, “Diaz took the two thousand million IFPI number from 2001 and multiplied it by five.
“Therefore … it means that piracy has become a lesser problem! 
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Check it out for yourself, he suggests. http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2009/08/30/hoy/vivir/1903882.asp
And for those of us who don’t speak Spanish, he generously provides a translation which, on “Piracy of musical productions and movies,” says, in part »»»
In Central America … since 2000, sales of discs has fell 83%, says Alexander Fallas, manager of Sony Music for Central America. “The latest figures are not encouraging, either: from July 2008 to July 2009, they have fallen 39%”, he adds.
And let’s not talk about loses. The big screen has seen its earnings fall by 30% approximately, due to pirate copies, says Miguel Joseph, general manager of Warner Bros. for Central America and president of the Panamanian Movie Dealers Association.
Music … registered 2 thousand million dollars in loses just in 2001, according to a report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. By then, remarks Fallas, piracy had “barely” started to gain strength.
Nowadays, it could be computed that piracy has lost the music industry about 10 thousand million dollars, remarked, in past declarations, Manolo Diaz, ex-president of Sony Music Europa, Universal Music Latino, Emi Music Europe and the Latin Grammys.
These figures and percentages are the result of the remarkable annual increase in the sales of pirate discs and movies.
In the case of Panama, during the first semester of 2009 88 thousand 651 pirate discs and DVDs have been confiscated, which suggests that the 104 thousand 33 ones seized in 2008 will be easily topped up, remarks Ramiro Esquivel, Intellectual Property Prosecutor.
For these reasons, piracy does not have to show that it is a fearful rival. Nevertheless, the music and movie industries are in the process of evolution and they are applying alternatives to try to reduce their loses.
Below, if you’re interested, are links to a few more corporate cartel stat stories »»»
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9155
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13117
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14753
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14759
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14763
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16795
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17264
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17997
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18762
- http://www.p2pnet.net/story/20073
(Cheers, palm iii, and also thanks for the translation )
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August, 2009
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August 31st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
“In the process of evolution?”
Sorry, but you’re about 10 years too late in getting to the dock. The ship sailed LONG ago. You’ve already missed out on any chance of reselling your catalog in digital format. The days of consumer gouging every time a new format comes along are over. You have yourselves to blame by fighting, rather than embracing, technological advancements. This time, the choice was fatal.
It’s time to stop the blame game, blaming file sharing for all your problems, and look inward to where the real problems lie. You’re all a bunch of self-serving fucks who wouldn’t recognize a good song if it bit you in the ass. I find better music every weekend at the local clubs from unsigned bands than anything in the Billboard Top 200, and it’s been this way for many years. It’s where I spend my hard earned money on music. I get quality music at a fair price and I know where my money is going as I watch them put it right in their own pockets… where it belongs. I’ll never spend a dime on censored Walmart music knowing my money will be used to pay a team of lawyers to terrorize single mom’s and college kids, or to corrupt our lawmaking process.
You whine about all the songwriters who need to get paid. Simple solution… sign BANDS capable of writing their own music instead of pretty, talentless faces who couldn’t write a song if their life depended on it. But then, if the Nicklebacks of the world are the best you can do, forget it. You deserve your fate. You deserve it anyway after your conduct over the last decade.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:18 pm
“the music and movie industries are in the process of evolution”
ya! The evolution of the dinosaurs. We know where it lead: Extinction!
“These figures and percentages are the result of the remarkable annual increase in the sales of pirate discs and movies.”
This is a lie. Who buy Cd anymore pirated or otherwise. If it was not a lie it would be a welcome thing that parasites are puting out of business other parasites before going out of business themselves.
One of my biology teacher use to say that germs does no like each others.