File sharers vs counterfeiters
p2p news / p2pnet: A Stanford University study theorizes that file sharing can put a dent in the underground counterfeit trade.
"Increased Internet piracy by individuals has reduced demand for commercially pirated products, like illegal copies of CDs and DVDs sold on the black market," says The Stanford Daily.
By, "strategic pricing, legal publishers can efficiently suppress commercial piracy activity and acquire a larger market segment and profit," it has Tunay Tunca, assistant professor of operations, information and technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and fifth-year doctoral candidate Qiong Wu saying.
"This is because the damage done by technologically-savvy individual pirates can be less than commercial ones."
Globally, "the greater enemy is third-party commercial pirates who vend illegal copies of CDs and DVDs filled with music, movies and software," Qiong said. "Legal digital goods producers can benefit from strategically using the presence of individual file sharers to reduce the damage from commercial pirates."
But The Stanford Daily says Qiong emphasises, "Stanford students should not assume that the findings of the study in any way endorse illegal file sharing of copyright materials by individuals."
Also See:
The Stanford Daily – Internet piracy lowers demand for black-market products, says Stanford professor, June 6, 2006
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June 9th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
Not knowing the scope and purpose of the Stanfor University study, I cannot criticize it. However, this is my list threats to the music copyright cartels, in no particualr order of importance:
1. The low quality of music and performers.
2. The high priced of the low quality products.
3. The availavilty excellent products free of cost.
4. Products independently distributed on the net and other places, such as concerts.
5. The big heart of some individuals, who buy products to help others, such as musicians. These of course, only buy independently produced and distributed music.
6. The low cost of blank media, hard disks, computers, the web.
7. The hatred brewing against the cartels for suing kids and mothers.
8. The cartel’s help from politicians which creates additional hatred agaisnt the cartels because of the perception that they have purchased the politicians.
9. Counterfeiters.
10. The local laws enforcement agencies and politicians that are somehow to ignore the counterfeit pedlers, perhaps out of pitty for the peddlers, who are mostly people that cannot find jobs.
11. The fact that very little of the money from label records reach the vast majority of songwriters and performers while some talentless “stars” make incredible amounts of money. As this information filters, the sympathy for the labels gets debilitated.
12. Payola. The more lousy music is repeated on radio and television the lower the image of the record companies that produces the trash.
13. Opposition of the cartels to sharing.
Surely there are more things.
Only some kind of genius can turn around this thing for the record industry. Anyhow, the “old guard” and thei lawyers will likely dissapear, to be replaced by liberal thinkers who are more concerned about art and culture than obsessed with money.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com