p2pnet - rss feed: New music ‘piracy’ statistics
p2pnet.net News:- The Big Four Organized Music cartel’s various ‘trade’ outfits such as the RIAA, IFPI, BPI, and so on, have faked so much outrage around p2p file sharing and downloading that, in the shape of Russian site AllofMP3.com, it’s being used against Russia in its bid to join the World Trade Organization.
Warner Music, EMI, Sony BMG and Vivendi Universal claim music ‘piracy,’ as they call it, is having an absolutely calamitous impact on US earnings, putting industry employees out of work and wreaking havoc with record label bottom lines.
That being so, it surely follows it’ll be right at the top of any list indexing illegal activities.
“Hey Jon,” says an email from my m8 Echo Resistance. (He was the guy who told me about the Havoc numbers which led to our story on tainted piracy stats.)
“I really think that the tide is starting to turn against the RIAA. With the tainted stats, then the questions of the figures from the Australians, then the lady in court calling bullshit on the $750 ….”
In Tainted cartel ‘pirate’ stats we wrote, “So successful are their continuing dis- and misinformation propaganda campaigns that they’ve been able to use them to dragoon entire governments and police forces into acting as industry enforcers.
“However, the cartels are also frequently accused of fabricating statistics upon which they base their claims and according to the Havocscope global index of illicit markets, far from being at the top of the pile, movie and music piracy are way, way down the list, ranking 16th and 20th, respectively.”
So with cartel contentions that copyright infringement is having a desperately negative impact on national economies in mind, since the last Havocscope global index, it’s probably climbed higher up the list. Right?
Er, not quite. In fact, music piracy is now off the current Havocscope Top 20 illicit index altogether.
“If the RIAA was a college football team, no one would even care about them,” says Echo.
No kidding ;p
Also See:
faked - Warner Music in trouble, May 6, 2006
AllofMP3.com - Is AllofMP3.com doomed?, November 12, 2006
figures from the Australians - Piracy statistics criticized, November 7, 2006
calling bullshit - Trouble looms for RIAA, November 10, 2006
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November 14th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
It’s interesting to note that the music piracy stats used at Havocscope are bullshit numbers. First, the source is IFPI and BPI, which make the numbers suspect to begin with. Next, they appear to be using the number of searches for unlicensed music (?) as a statisical indicator to be used in generating from an estimate of the number of p2p users. Just because a user searches for music doesn’t mean that the user found it, licensed or otherwise, and using p2p doesn’t necessarily mean that the content was unlicensed or illegal.
When I download content it is almost always to evaluate it. Most of what I keep is wanted and eventually purchased, if I can find a way to purchase it.
November 15th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
” When I download content it is almost always to evaluate it. Most of what I keep is wanted and eventually purchased, if I can find a way to purchase it. ”
Thats why they fear P2P.
If you hear it and discover just how much filler crap the album
really is, you won’t buy it.
Since at most locations, once you buy a CD, you can only return
it for a copy of the SAME CD ( if you’ve broken the shrink wrap ),
your cash is theirs, like it or not.
The ability to preview solves this problem for the customer.
They HATE that shit.
Furthermore,
In the course of searching and sampling, you might find something,
under creative commons or free, that you like better, and ignore
the cartel offering altogether.
They consider the purchase of TRUE Independent music ( not
cartel controlled ) as stealing from the cartel as well. Just like
they consider skipping the ads on DVD’s to be “stealing” from the
sponsors.
They basically use the word ’stealing’ as a synonym for ‘choice’.
Neat, huh ?
April 21st, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Hmm… well did you ever consider “reviewing” said music on websites such as myspace, lastFM or Purevolume? There are millions of different bands and musical talent on these websites with full length songs available to “sample” as many times as you wish. I dont know… just an idea.