tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post3007996421843936600..comments2024-03-10T10:55:11.119+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: The True Cost of Piracy: an infographic to set the discussion agendaMarie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-63871438974095601112012-03-25T18:13:56.717+01:002012-03-25T18:13:56.717+01:00Strange graphic. It has no purpose or subject. How...Strange graphic. It has no purpose or subject. How does information on piracy, opinion, budgets and top piracy schools relate?Kristianhttp://www.innovationpartners.dknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-5891104140106212552012-03-23T14:34:25.199+00:002012-03-23T14:34:25.199+00:00Hans, these people aren't pirates and it's...Hans, these people aren't pirates and it's you who are misusing the word. They're kidnapers. Oh yes, and The Pirate Bay didn't need to call themselves The Pirate Bay did they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-22767936040640808482012-03-23T13:44:03.605+00:002012-03-23T13:44:03.605+00:00It’s offensive to hear the whining propaganda of m...It’s offensive to hear the whining propaganda of music industry lawyers when they misuse the word “piracy” when “piracy” is what Judith Tebbuts has just experienced:<br /><br />British hostage Judith Tebbut's family 'paid Somali pirates £600,000 ransom' to end her six-month ordeal<br /><br /> She was freed after her relatives paid a ransom - pirate said $1.1m was airdropped<br /><br /> She said 'Seven months is a long time and under the circumstances with my husband passing away...made it harder'<br /><br /> Her husband David, 58, was shot by a gang of six men at their remote holiday resort in Kiwayu, north of Lamu island in September<br /><br />Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118084/British-hostage-Judith-Tebbutt-released-months-kidnapped-Somalia.html#ixzz1pwgvRBIkHans Sachsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-47543399584553591062012-03-22T23:55:50.136+00:002012-03-22T23:55:50.136+00:00The true cost of piracy is, of course, zero. Pirac...The true cost of piracy is, of course, zero. Piracy neither creates or destroys money. It may divert money from one industry to another, but if a penniless student who can't afford to go to the cinema has movie files with a retail price of $30,000 on his computer, the movie industry would have you believe they've suffered a $30,000 loss, when in reality, if piracy was somehow made impossible overnight and all illegal copies destroyed, the student would still be penniless, and the movie industry would be no better off... in fact it would be worse off, because in 20 years time that student wouldn't be tempted to buy the fance 20th anniversary reissue on whatever format has replaced blue ray of that movie he loved at uni, because he didn't see any.<br /><br />If all the figures presented here are correct, then universities would be around $500,000 better off, and the IFPI, RIAA, MPAA and BSA would be around $30m better off if politicians did what 54% of the American population think they ought to do, and legalised private copying.Andrew Robinsonhttp://www.pirateparty.org.uknoreply@blogger.com