Interesting Study + Canadian SOPA DDD8

An interesting study was done by the Government of Switzerland over online piracy.
They determined that unauthorized downloading (which 1/3 of their citizens do) does not create any loss in revenue for the entertainment industry.

The government report further concludes that even in the current situation where piracy is rampant, the entertainment industries are not necessarily losing money. To reach this conclusion, the researchers extrapolated the findings of a study conducted by the Dutch government last year, since the countries are considered to be similar in many aspects.

The report states that around a third of Swiss citizens over 15 years old download pirated music, movies and games from the Internet. However, these people don’t spend less money as a result because the budgets they reserve for entertainment are fairly constant. This means that downloading is mostly complementary.

The other side of piracy, based on the Dutch study, is that downloaders are reported to be more frequent visitors to concerts, and game downloaders actually bought more games than those who didn’t. And in the music industry, lesser-know bands profit most from the sampling effect of file-sharing.

Read the full sources;;
http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120121/16551717500/jonathan-coulton-destroys-rationale-behind-megaupload-seizure-with-single-tweet-follows-up-with-epic-blog-post.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Well, if the industry is losing no money, then there really is no reason for them peoples to be pushing things like SOPA and ACTA, right? >.>
If these pass, it'll be nothing but a lose-lose situation for everyone. ono

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In le other news.
Canadian SOPA.
Meet Bill C-11.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_Canada#Bill_C-11
Innocuous as it sounds, C-11 does a whole lot that SOPA did with a few extra twists you might not find in the Wikipedia write-up.
Like your PVR? You can’t keep it under C-11.
Like ripping CDs to your iPod? Say bye-bye.
Hey, do you want to be able to unlock your $500 smartphone and take it to a provider less dedicated to violating your wallet? That won’t be allowed either.
Did you get accused of internet piracy but no evidence has been presented and a trial date hasn’t even been set? Under C-11 your ISP will now be forced to terminate your internet access.
And people say that governments can’t be bought.

:sofnoes:
There are only 14 days left people.

Come on Canadians of WCC. D8 Take a stand, bros.
There's a pre-written letter of protest you can send.
le here;; http://www.ccer.ca/letter-wizard-enter/

If you live outside of Canada, it directs you to a page where you can download the letter and send it yourself.

You can read more about it here. D;
http://www.ccer.ca/
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/bill-c11-could-bring-sopa-online-piracy-laws-212657243.html

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and in unrelated but amusing news.:

Oh god, Poland's parliament XD

Butsrslydoodz D: That's bad.

FFFFF

Is this Steven's fault?! D:< .. Steven Harper? o3o

You've gotta be f*cking kidding me. If this goes through, I'm gonna kill someone. Seriously. >:U *sendsletter*

...Wow. That's intense. TAKE THAT, GOVERNMENT >:U

lolololol poland

:ffplz:

Steven must die in a pit of burning sulfur. >:C

...I'm pissed now. What's up with this crap anyway? Why do they have to torture us who have not done anything? It's not fair.

Icee wrote:

...I'm pissed now. What's up with this crap anyway? Why do they have to torture us who have not done anything? It's not fair.

There are those who have done illegal things on the internet though. I'm thinking their logic is that just stop it before it happens; it's much to hard to track down those who do it. Especially those with computer hacking skills.




.... and don't trust anything the government of Switzerland puts out. >_>

It's a legit study, Moon. cx
Can we trust the Dutch, then?