Finland p2p file sharers
p2pnet.net News:- Bad News for the Big Four Organized Music family: its sue ‘em all efforts notwithstanding, the new Finnish copyright law, which went into effect at the beginning of the year, “has done little to cut down illegal downloading of music,” says Helsingin Sanomat.
“Only just over ten per cent of respondents to a fresh survey published on Wednesday reported that they had reduced illegal downloading from file sharing networks,” it says.
Only about one in 20 said they’d, “stopped using the peer-to-peer networks altogether”.
“Executive director Antti Kotilainen of the Anti-Piracy Centre in Finland, CIAPC, admits that illegal downloading from the Internet continues to be a problem,” says Helsingin Sanomat.
“The problem is substantial. There are around 150,000 active users of peer-to-peer networks in Finland.”
Also See:
Helsingin Sanomat – New copyright law has done little to stop illegal downloading of music, September 1, 2006
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September 1st, 2006 at 11:23 pm
You see??? There is the problem.
Finland’s population (estimated by the CIA) was 5,231,372 in July. Given there are 150,000 active p2p net (no dot) users there, that’s less than 3% of the population. If we even assume (which would be wrong) ALL of them are downloading ALL their music and movies, then the absolute maximum loss for RIAA would be 3% of 0.008% of the world population. Not a big loss on the surface of it.
Finland is a particularly technical country, and pretty strong on individual rights (many of us remember anon.penet.fi) so it’s likely to have a higher percentage of p2p users than most of the world, but anyhow… Assuming (wrong again) that 2.8% of the planet stole ALL their music and movies through downloads, I bet that’s a smaller percentage loss than retailers experience, and they don’t sue everyone who walks in. (Gee, I wonder why.)
I think an encrypted, referral-based p2p system would solve this problem.
September 2nd, 2006 at 7:21 pm
“I think an encrypted, referral-based p2p system would solve this problem.”
for example MUTE anyone? (not really referral-based but encrypted and anonym)
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/
September 4th, 2006 at 7:25 am
I´m quite sure, that 150,000 means – 150,000 at every time of the day according to bigchampagne – and does not count any BT-users.
aloa
September 5th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Maybe the Finns have realized what a scam the copyright laws are.
As the cost to distribute goes down towards zero, the copyright duration periods are increase, allegedly to increase the incentives to create and, equally important to “invest” in the distribution process. The fact is that as distribution costs go down (and they can be almost zero in the digital age) the duration of copyright, logically should be reduced.
The fact is that Windows has an over 100 year copyright duration and when it enters the public domain it will be worthless as a computer program. Then what should we expect, that people will copy and use Windows now, or wait 100 years for it to go into the public domain? Let’s not be naive in our expectations!
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com