о потерях
10:53 | 22-01-2012 | Copyright, Economics, Internet, Privacy | 1 Comment
как и утверждалось ранее, разговоры о чудовищных финансовых потерях суть очередная ложь:
One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet and since last year the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week their response was published and it was crystal clear. Not only will downloading for personal use stay completely legal, but the copyright holders won’t suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products.
в точности, что говорил Тим О’Рейлли и раньше, и сейчас:
In the entire discussion, I’ve seen no discussion of credible evidence of this economic harm. There’s no question in my mind that piracy exists, that people around the world are enjoying creative content without paying for it, and even that some criminals are profiting by redistributing it. But is there actual economic harm?
In my experience at O’Reilly, the losses due to piracy are far outweighed by the benefits of the free flow of information, which makes the world richer, and develops new markets for legitimate content. Most of the people who are downloading unauthorized copies of O’Reilly books would never have paid us for them anyway; meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of others are buying content from us, many of them in countries that we were never able to do business with when our products were not available in digital form.
возвращаясь же к Швейцарии, остается только заметить вот еще что:
Aside from downloading, it is also practically impossible for companies in Switzerland to go after casual uploaders. In 2010 the Supreme Court ruled that tracking companies are not allowed to log IP-addresses of file-sharers, making it impossible for rightsholders to gather evidence.
афигительные, натурально.
[…] ничего удивительного. и, да, все так: Давно заметил: любая копирайт-истерия под лозунгами “СОБЛЮДАЙТЕ ЗАКОН” первым делом ведет к массовому нарушению копирайт-законодательства. […]