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Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System
An anonymous reader writes: Canada's copyright notice-and-notice system took effect earlier this
year, leading to thousands of notifications being forwarded by
Internet providers to their subscribers. Since its launch, there
have been serious
concerns about the use of notices to demand settlements and to
shift the costs of enforcement to consumers and Internet providers.
Yet reports indicate that piracy rates in Canada have plummeted,
with some ISPs seeing a 70%
decrease in online infringement.
i used to download movies. i received several notices from the service provider (comcast) that it's illegal. now i use watchfree.to to stream movies for free. so, some of those people might just be shifting to alternatives and the reduction might be less than 70%.
"In an unrelated story, VPN services have seen a 3000% increase in Canadian customers."
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
a 70% decrease in [the detection of] online infringement. FTFY.
It doesn't hurt that Canadian Netflix etc has been improving their content, and the cable monopolies recently had to change to a-la-carte packaging for their services as well. There's also seems to be a bit of a dearth of great movies, so maybe there's less to pirate.
If they made content cheap and ad-free (Netflix, not Hulu) then not only would detectable piracy go down, but also all piracy would go down, and legitimate purchases would go way up. People aren't opposed to paying a reasonable amount to get what they want. People hate paying too much (fees), or forcibly (ads), or for stuff they don't want (bundling). Why is that so hard to figure out? Oh, right, I forgot about distributors (aka dinosaurs afraid to move on).
And that tariff was applied to all media regardless of whether it was used for private copying of music.
Burn a cd or dvd with some of your pictures or personal data on it? The tariff was charged on that blank media and given to the recording industry.
And this shit goes all the way back to blank cassette tapes.
Probably more like 7% reduction in people who pirate. And most of those would be kids who lost their in room PCs when mommy and daddy got the notice.
People don't all pirate the same amount, so changes in infringer numbers don't equate to an identical change in traffic amounts. The industry knows this and uses both interchangeably depending on whichever supports their case the best.
Here, as always, there is little to no context so we don't know the actual effect of the notices. We just have to take them on their word.
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Let's see, the article says that piracy rates have dropped 70% according to "CEG TEK".
Fair enough, so who or what is a "CEG TEK"?
So, draw your own conclusions.
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You're either very young or very naive, or a combination of both. If you're an adult, tough, I'd seek help because you're delusional. We're moving towards less freedom, more and more surveillance and a general understanding that we're better off censoring ourselves. Think how many things you can say today that would not only be perceived as "wrong" but actually cause you very serious trouble. One wrong word uttered and you can find yourself unemployable if not the target of the State's rough attention. We're not getting more access, we're getting more surveillance. It's going to get a lot worse.
Piracy may well be down.
Are sales up?
The only reason piracy is illegal is because it affects legitimate sales. If people are not getting media for free, but still aren't buying it (for whatever reason) then this is a net cost to the economy.