New Approaches to Piracy
According to the Transnational Crimes blog, countries are finally getting together to fight against real pirates.
As Kenyan puts 10 suspected Somali pirates to trial, piracy concerns are causing countries to strengthen their transnational relations and to develop new strategies for dealing with maritime issues.
Countries such as Somalia, South Africa, the Phillipines, Thailand and Malaysia are recognising the real threat of real pirates on the high seas.
The economic cost of hijacked ships, the threat of rape and torture and the threat to human lives is much more important than the bogus war on "piracy" waged by the RIAA and their minions.
Maybe the RIAA should go after the real copyright thieves instead of children - but that would involve investigating the replication factories of the copyright violators - often in "friendly" third world countries .
It's much easier to attack students, mothers and children than upset the applecart by going for the real criminals who make millions of dollars a year from counterfeiting copyright goods - and you don't have to worry about the geopolitical fallout.
If the RIAA really wanted to get tough they go for the real offenders - black factories in low-wage countries where no questions are asked and getting 100,000 illegal copies of Madonna's new album is simply a matter of paying.
Once on the streets of any major city - London, New York, Bombay, Delhi or Madrid - these counterfeit copies are far more dangerous than any student, child or housewife "assumed guilty" of p2p filesharing.
Anyway consumers aren't even getting value for money from the RIAA - guess who is subsidising this "war on piracy" - the consumer.
Filesharing currently costs the media industry $48 million per month or $579 million per year in lost revenues. The total cost of unauthorized replication is $1129 million per year (the cost of filesharing plus the MPAA/RIAA's estimated piracy cost of $550 million per year).But the RIAA and MPAA's tactics currently cost the media industry more — $189 million per month or $2265 million per year in lost revenues. Since the MPAA and RIAA cost them $1136 million more than the sum total of foregone piracy revenues they might prevent, the media industry is getting a bad deal.
'nuff said.
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