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Default Re: 30% of UK File-Sharers Intend To Pirate More

The devil is always in the details.

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The Wiggin law firm counts many big entertainment companies as clients so expect some of the results of this survey to be quoted by the industry at a later date.
If the Wiggin law firm wants more business, the survey best say what the big entertainment companies want the survey to say.

Have you ever wondered where all these eye popping figures come from? How they figure out how much pirated software is on each computer and what it's worth, worldwide? It is from these estimates that these big entertainment companies get their figures to drive new laws.

The BSA (Business Software Alliance) is the one in charge of figuring out the value of pirated software. The BSA is pretty much at the beck and call of Microsoft. What they do is gain access to some computers to find out what is on them, as pirated software. There are various ways to do this, from data spying, malware, police confiscations, yada yada yada. But they figure out what percentage of the dominate softwares are pirated.

When they figure the value of these softwares, it is always at the OEM, top price. Now you and I know software isn't sold this way in the real world. There are student packages to get the student the software without full price, there are software bundles where if you buy this you get that with it, there are freebee give-a-ways where for a limited time you can get it for free, there are limited editions, the list seems endless. But each and every software, no matter how it got on the computer, is priced at the highest price possible. You see already that the figures are going to be way off, by this one example alone.

In the RIAA and MPAA piracy figures, the practice is to lump as much as possible into the figuring out value. The whole idea is to make it eye popping because real figures of loss are ho-hum today. You can't get headlines unless the figures are big. You can't get attention in the political area, unless the same thing is shown as a need to act.

So figured in the losses are things that have nothing to do with entertainment in the effort to seize that eye popping figure and often the same thing is counted more than one time.

The farmer isn't selling as much pop corn because pirates aren't showing up at the box office to buy popped corn. That's a loss to the film industry. The pirates aren't buying pop corn from the high priced concessions. That's a loss for the film industry. The paper companies aren't selling paper bags for pop corn because the pirates aren't buying it, that's a loss for the film industry. You see how this is played?

Yeah, I get that surveys are going to support the entertainment industry when they buy or commission the work. But when you look at it that way, the whole business of this article is bias in the extreme and in no way should be taken to represent the real world.
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