EU Study Proves Piracy Doesn't Affect Sales
The entertainment industry is hell-bent on forcing the rhetoric down people's throats that piracy is ruining their industry.
They do this, despite the fact that more people download music legitimately every year, box office sales and profits worldwide keep going up, and studies reveal that piracy itself helps to drive sales by acting as a form of advertising. Look here for more info: https://www.bestvpn.com/privacy-news/box-office-records-in-2015-despite-increased-piracy/
Game of Thrones' producers, at least, have previously admitted that being the "most pirated show of the year was "better than winning an Emmy".
Now an EU-commissioned study that was purposefully swept under the carpet has revealed that piracy does not negatively affect sales.
In fact, when it comes to the gaming industry piracy has actually been shown to increase profits for publishers.
When will the entertainment industry finally admit that it is their greed (which forces the Netflix catalog to differ from nation to nation, for instance) that makes people turn to piracy?
People simply can't afford to shell out cash for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Go - and all the other on-demand services -
which when combined greatly water down what is available to people on any one of the platforms.
Consumers want choice, and when the things they want to see aren't available on their platform AND the titles that are available on those platforms shrink (or have already been consumed) it is inevitable that people will turn to piracy.
Streaming services that provide content at a reasonable price are of interest to consumers, but until those services can begin to offer similar catalogs across borders people will always be tempted toward piracy.
For the whole story please check out my article here: https://www.bestvpn.com/privacy-news/eu-piracy-study/
If legal version was the same or better than the illegal version then I'll pay for the legal version....
I don't like DRM unless that DRM is good... that's why I love steam but I'd still prefer what I buy to be DRM free...
The more creators fight with piracy the more pirated versions seem more attractive....
BUT at the same time people who create like food and can't create new things if we don't pay them.
I can see this problem from both sides... and I can say both sides need to consider the other side more.
This is a very valid point, of course. No one is saying that content creators shouldn't be paid for the work they produce.
What is worth keeping in mind, however, is that profits in the entertainment industry have been going up, despite that industry's constant crying wolf about profit losses.
Think of it this way: content creators are often happy to give away content for free!
Publishers hate the practice and often rip off content producers by giving them around 10% of the profits made from their content, while also locking them into long-term contracts (which they even have to buy themselves out of at times).
I agree.. but at the same time Publishers own the content too... so I can't say they are wrong.... There are ones who take it too far but...
Glad to have this conversation with you.
Sure, copyright holders aren't wrong to sell the products they own.
However, using their influence to purposefully color the water and unduly influence third parties (such as Google) and governments - including hiding studies such as this one - and even attempting to make governments legislate tht the act of watching pirated content an imprisonable offense! This seems immoral to me.
They do this, despite the fact that studies reveal that piracy helps them to make more revenue not less (by advertising their content for free via word of mouth).
At the end of the day, the entertainment industry wants third parties such as Google and governments to force people to watch their content, rather than investing in ways of distributing content at a reasonable price so that people simply stop pirating content.
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