RSSStudy: One-Third of CDs Are Pirated
By Ed Oswald | Published June 23, 2005, 12:34 PM
According to a music industry group, one out of every three compact discs sold last year was pirated at a cost to the industry of $4.6 billion. There was some good news to be found in the report, as piracy only grew 2 percent year over year, which was the smallest increase in half a decade.
The report released by the International Federation of Phonographic Industries says that in 31 countries the amount of pirated music sold outweighs legal music. Also, in 2004 new countries have become problem areas for piracy, including Chile, Czech Republic, Greece, India and Turkey.
The IFPI decided to announced the results of the study in Spain, where street piracy has led to a drop in legitimate CD sales in the past three years by over 30 percent. Illicit discs now account for 24 percent of all sales in the country.
Spain will now join nine other countries as target areas to combat piracy in the coming year. However, Spain's piracy market is nowhere near that of China, with a 85 percent piracy rate and sales of some $411 million, or Paraguay, with a staggering piracy rate of 99 percent.
"Over the next few years governments and society are going to have to learn to take piracy more seriously - piracy not just of music, but in all its forms," IFPI chairman and CEO John Kennedy said. "It is no longer acceptable for governments to turn a blind eye, or to regard piracy as merely a small irritation to society."
Some companies are even considering pulling out of markets where piracy has become a large problem. Vivendi Universal says that such an action is a possibility, although it would not name any specifics. In any case, piracy is affecting the company's bottom line, and affecting operations.
Oh come on.
Nobody believes the numbers those guys give out.
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|"The IFPI decided to announced the results of the study in Spain, where street piracy has led to a drop in legitimate CD sales in the past three years by over 30 percent."
survey says.... BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTT
The real world with common sense announced that cd sales fell the last 3 years due to increasing prices. Consumers worldwide are showing their displeasure for the rising prices by not buying the cds, artists are increasingly ired by lack of sales and are having to actually perform before live audiences, record company fatcats screamed foul because their lucrative income in cd sales has decreased. Mad that they can no longer exploit the talent they hired the mafia to start offing people... err the RIAA to start hunting down these evildoes and prosecuting them.
On a side note, Artists are reporting an increase in income due to the decrease in cd sales.
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|Plus, a lot of it is also c rap as well. There maybe one good song on an entire CD.
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|The RIAA was busy in Salinas California. We saw them on the 11 o'clock news, chasing illegal aliens, who sell pirated CDs and DVDs. A local flea market has been raided a few times by the police too...
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|Music piracy is down because now there are online music stores that let you buy the only one or two good songs from the cd for only a couple bucks if they would get rid of DRM i bet it would go down even more.
On a side note wasn't walmart going to bring out a cd burning service that you pick a certain amount of songs for 20 bucks and they ship it to you. sorry havent been to a wallmart in months so i don't know if they got this service going yet and want to know if its drm free so i don't have to worry about it being incompatable with my mp3 player.
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|in Indonesia, China, Vietnam 9 of 10 are pirated.
even the BSA still need to work harder to reduce the pirated level.
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|O that 1 in a thousand CDs are even worth it.
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|These claims are absurd any one that believes them is brain washed. Who conducted this study, how were the trends calculated? What professors/doctors were involved in these conclussions? NONE.
Claims like these are completely made up and filled with imaginary numbers and statistics. The only real studies done about file sharing and whether or not "piracy" (which in itself is a lie to call, piracy only happens on the high seas like you know, with pirates arggghhhh) has any effect on sales and its been shown it doesnt. That at most for every 10,000 downloads 1 cd sale is lost and that was attributed entirely to round off errors.
How flawed can an article like this be "According to a music industry group, one out of every three compact discs sold last year was pirated at a cost to the industry of $4.6 billion" it doesnt even name the body that made these claims and these claims were made by the people that have the most to benefit from making it. How much more self serving and biased can you make an article? You can't, this is the epotimy of how journalism is supposed to NOT be.
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|"How much more self serving and biased can you make an article?"
Yes it's extremely self-serving to want to be paid for a product. Those scumbags.
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|Wow, so that many people are dying to share their Britney and Tobi noise. Who knew?
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|I am against piracy of movies, but not of music, every music CD is like 20$ and what do you get 15-20 songs, but if you buy a DVD you don't only get the movie but a bunch of extra features for the same price. I think music is too expensive for what it is.
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|i'd be curious to hear what you think about spending $12 at the movie theater plus another $10 for popcorn and soda and then sit through 15 minutes of commercials. that's the big movie piracy area, people camming off the big screens or off screeners.
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|I for one hate the extras that come on the DVD's and how most DVD's make you watch ads and previews. I hate it and every chance I get I skip to the root menu. Extra crap. Who cares about a letter or something a kin to that is on a DVD.
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|I'm not a big fan, but let me tell you that my kids eat that stuff up. They sometimes go to the extras before they ever play their movies.
$12-$20 is nothing when it makes them that happy. Netflix is a wonderful thing too.
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|I just did my own studdy and 3/4ths of my CD's are pirated :) j/k
btw www.whatacrappypresent.com is a good site.
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|The question is where to draw the line. This sort of piracy can definantly hurt a market as you are taking legitimate revenue from the company, and putting it into a third party's hands. On the other hand, passing around mp3s between you and your buddies doesn't directly effect revenue, as there is no guarantee you would have actually purchased the product, given that you had to pay for it. In other words, this sort of piracy (not as prevelant in the US, although I have seen street vendors selling pirated DVD's in Time Square) is probably worse than file sharing. 99% Piracy rate in Paraguay... that must mean that like one guy buys a CD, and then pirats and sells it to everyone else... almost humerous.
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|Yeah, it sort-of is funny, but bad aswell. That *guy* is making money off the 100 people he pirates to. It would be better if the companies offered music/games at cheaper rates to poorer countries, but then we'd have the problem that you can get *NEW GAME X* for $60.00, or buy it from Paraguay for $5.00.
No way to solve it. I personally don't pirate any music, or games, or software. Although if something costs enough, and fails to deliver its money's worth, I have no problem using it on multiple computers.(That I control and own)
Then again, I pretty much only use my fastest computer, and it's hard to use 4 computers at once. :P
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|I do understand the problem here and agree with you. I know it is wrong, but as you have stated, when a product has a high cost you do load it on other machines. I do that, but only to ones I own and only in my home. Not at a business or with customers. I feel that I have already bought it and therefore can use it on more than 1. the most being 3.
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|I wouldn't even consider it piracy installing on more than one machine in the home when you own and control the computers it's not like your distibuting its just some homes have more than one user and you might need it on another computer if someones doing something on the other.
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|from a legal standpoint it generally is piracy (whether or not you think it is) in those cases. but the big companies don't care too much about that, they want to stop the corporate piracy and the street merchants. once those guys are stopped (maybe in 2075) then they'll go after the people that lend CDs to friends and family. once they stop that (maybe 2225) they'll go after people installing it on multiple machines at home. its just like the whole P2P thing, the RIAA has stated before that they don't care too much about sharing CDs between friends, its the large scale internet sharing that their against.
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|depends on how you look at it since you can make a personal back up here in Canada atleast it falls into a legal grey area since it's not being distributed for most programs anyway operating system and some other software would be a bit more difficult basicaly depends on the wording of the agreement you click yes to.
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