[IP] more on now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
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From: ritholtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: August 14, 2005 8:23:28 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: marcaniballi@xxxxxxxxxxx, smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
Dave,
That stat is extremely misleading -- its not the home user that is
doing all the burning that endangers the Labels -- its the illegal
mass counterfeiter.
Further, there is a legal difference between a fair use copy and an
illegal commercial counterfeit. Making a copy for personal usage is
allowed under copyright law -- as a back up, for the car, etc. That's
considered "fair use."
The statistic 29% is misleading -- The real number is 35%; That's the
number, according to a study last summer, of all CDs SOLD which are
iIllegal dupes:
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/07/35_of_all_cds_a.html
Here's an excerpt:
"The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has
published a report claiming that 35% of all CDs sold around the world
are illegal copies � that's 1.1 billion pirate disks. The report
also includes a list of countries recommended for government action:
Brazil, China, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Spain, Taiwan,
Thailand and Ukraine.
Sales of illegal discs rose 4% in 2004, though the year saw the
slowest increase since 2000, an indication that increased anti-piracy
activity is having a positive effect.
Clearly the biggest threat to the record industry today is not P2P
networks but the more traditional CD copying seen in the the IFPI's
ten priority countries where anti-piracy offensives are most needed."
Its not P2P or personal copies at home that should be of the greatest
concern to the music industry -- its the massive counterfeiting
operations spinning out 100s of thousands of discs for sale, both
abroad and in North America.
A consumer who buys a disc, and then makes a back up (or even shares
a copy with a friend) is the very least of the major labels worries.
Barry Ritholtz
The Big Picture
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, August 13, 2005 3:40 pm
Subject: [IP] more on now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
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From: Marc <marcaniballi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 13, 2005 3:41:36 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
The Software industry has been at this a lot longer than the music
industry.
Have these RIAA idiots not thought to ask about effective copy
protection of
physical media? They probably wouldn't like the answer - It can't
be
done! A
hack will always be found and propagated globally within days.
You may have noticed that there has been very little activity from
the major
software vendors trying to shut down the Kazaas and Bittorrents of the
world; even though they "suffer" just as much if not more than the
RIAA and
MPAA together. Maybe they know something?!
Marc
-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 2:40 PM
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Subject: [IP] now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 13, 2005 2:13:05 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
Remember how file-sharing was the one true threat to the music
industry? Well, now it's CD burning instead.
''Burned'' CDs accounted for 29 percent of all recorded music
obtained by fans in 2004, compared to 16 percent attributed to
downloads from online file-sharing networks, said Mitch Bainwol,
chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of
America.
....
Copy protection technology ''is an answer to the problem that
clearly the marketplace is going to see more of,'' he added.
More details at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Music-
Retailers.html
(Aside: does anyone else remember their assault on cassette tapes
about 20 years ago, where they wanted to encode an allegedly-inaudible
signal that recorders would recognize? That attempt failed when it
was demonstrated that the chosen signal was, in fact, quite audible
on certain types of music.)
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