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June 15, 2005
P2P Piracy and the Shoplifting Comparison
[IPcentral Weblog - Intellectual Property and Copyright Commentary] Back several years ago in my period of skepticism about IP (not nearly so well known--or lucrative--as Picasso's "blue period") I occasionally wondered if P2P downloading was a sort of loss that content sellers could just learn to tolerate, the way that merchants of physical goods take losses from shoplifting. Now from the standpoint of anyone with experience in business of any kind, I suspect this was a pretty silly thought, really, but sometimes IP policy is made by people without experience of business of any kind.
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Ratchet Up] Browser Compliant Tatoos, Depricated U-Trow: providing content, the P2P networks would run dry. (BitTorrent, a faster and more efficient type of P2P...s a commonly held belief that P2P is about sharing files. It's an appealing, democratic notion: Consumers rip... providing content, the P2P networks would run dry. (BitTorrent, a faster and more efficient type of P2P
[Random Blog] Kazaa (or lack thereof..): I'm assuming everyone knows what Kazaa is? For the uninitiated, its a p2p (person to person) ... supplier of music (yes, i've got over 1000 illegal mp3 files! track down my IP address and come sue... easily. Its time to sharpen those shoplifting skills. Old methods for cramming those tapes in my
[Andersrask.net] Anders Rask Blog - Whatever the question? Litigation is the answer!: I don't think people who download and people who shoplift are exactly the same, but, sure, both is stealing. To stay in the shoplifting analogy their problem is that 50 million people are coming to their shops on a weekly basis stashing goods under their jackets and leaving again. And the shops are only able to get a hold of 10, 50 or 100 of them every other month or something like that.
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[Akira.arts.kuleuven.ac.be] chosaq » Digital shoplifting revisited: Secondly and as I have argued before, I don’t quite get the point. There’s no shoplifting going on here - reproducing information by taking a picture nicely hooks in on its nonrivalrous aspect; the (digital) consumption of the person who takes the picture does not reduce another person’s consumption of the same good - the magazine is still there, something that is not the case with ordinary shoplifting.
[Blogmaverick.com] MGM Grokster Thoughts Part 2 - Tech, SCUSA & Rock n Roll - Blog ...: They provide tons of bonus features, and that attracts consumers like moths to a flame. Most downloading, to be honest, is of new release films that people would buy or rent on DVD if they could, but they're not released yet....
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, P2p, Filesharing Review
Posted at June 15, 2005 06:17 AM
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