Piracy Is The Only Media Losing Money

One reason why I think people should be prosecuted to an extent is because it is a harmless crime. People in the world have gotten a lesser charge for things that are worst than piracy. Some of the crimes actually can involve hurting others yet they get a lesser crime. On a website

In this day and age, it's not just physical things being stolen: basically everything that can be digitally distributed can be cracked by some tech guy and uploaded onto one of the thousands of illegal websites. No matter how many countermeasures the creators set up, there will always be somebody who will be up to the challenge of busting through them. and there are no reppercussions to these blatent thefts unless a pirate is dumb enough to admit his crimes on the internet.

Criminals guilty of piracy may be sentenced up to 5 years in prison and fined up to 250,000 dollars. Crimes such as piracy are very serious, as well as the punishments. Businesses who promote and commit piracy and other similar need to be prosecuted, and organizations should do everything they can to win legal battles. Because businesses who steal media promote piracy and creators of the media are losing potential money, it is appropriate for organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America to use charged language like "piracy" to win legal battles.

Piracy has been around before the time of the pyramids. Once merchant ship began to deliver goods to other countries, others realized the financial gain that could be made by stealing those goods and selling them themselves. Pirates have ruled the seas at different times. Once Europeans settled in the American colonies, pirates plundered towns along the coast and attacked almost every ship they came in contact with. During the 18th century, wars gave rise to privateering; a legal form of piracy. But, after the War of 1812, this was no longer tolerated. Government put an end to most piracy but, today there are still pirates. By comparing the pirates

Piracy also often introduces infrastructure and security concerns. The sites used for software and media piracy often leave visitors with malware, viruses and spyware, which can compromise private business data and

1. I strongly believe that piracy should be legal. To begin with, the overseeing of private distribution is regulated without set standards and guidelines, almost arbitrarily, and only exists because there exists the assumption that piracy negatively impacts the people that put in work to produce the goods or services in question. From the business standpoint, the driving stance behind those that are against piracy is that piracy is equated to stealing. This is an unreasonable fallacy when it comes to online piracy. It is understandable in the real world, using a car as an example, if you steal a car; the original is no longer there. However, if you were to pirate a movie or a textbook, it is still available for purchase from the creator. Parallels cannot be drawn between online piracy and the real world. Additionally, many multiplayer computer games on the internet are free to play, and the video game industry is thriving. The flagship example would be in the case of Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones is the most pirated object that exists on the internet, and the creators of the show are proud to announce that more than half of its audience watches the show illegally. Given this information, HBO (the network that owns Games of Thrones) still made more revenue during the last quarter of the 2013 year than its biggest competitor (Netflix) and that’s with Netflix having a larger customer pool and no problems with piracy. Chances are, if one is going to pirate something, they

To begin with, pirating has a very rich, and long history that traces back to ancient Greek times. With the progression of trade between empires came the development of piracy. The oldest mention dates back to 1350 B.C. Inscriptions on a clay tablet describe Mediterranean ships being attacked in North Africa. Greek merchants that traded in Phoenician and Anatolian

Online piracy doesn’t only necessarily harm the music industry but harms other industries that are available in an economy, such as the movie industry. For instance, in the years of 2009 and 2010, a research study showed an estimate of 12,600 jobs and $1.8 billion were lost throughout the entire Canadian economy due to the piracy of movies let alone piracy of other content (source). The physical recorded music worldwide was exceling in the 1990’s, having profits as high as $37 billion in 1999 however that number significantly drops to $25 billion by 2007. Several organizations agreed that the drastic decrease in revenue not solely in Canada but worldwide, is due to online piracy. It has caused songwriters lose their jobs and staying without works and is demotivating new artists into the industry since it is a much harder process now to get signed into the business now. Furthermore, the technological change that keep occurring has reduced how effective the degree of protection that copyright laws have ever since

Economically, $12.5 billion in losses each year is due to piracy in the music industry, $2.7 billion in workers’ earnings are lost each year due to online piracy and almost 71,000 jobs are lost in the United States every year due to online piracy as well. It may seem that these numbers are horrifying, but one statistic proves otherwise. In the statistics for the highest and lowest piracy rates in 2010, the United States comes up the very top of the lowest piracy percentage, only accounting for 20% of media downloaded from the Internet. Most consumers in the U.S. obtain their media legally because they support their artists. They realize that artists are also people working and making their craft just like everyone else. Consumers may download the songs illegally, but if they really loved the album, they would buy the real deal.

What this viewer’s most of the time don’t know and are not aware of is that piracy at large is a big detriment to the job economy of the United States. THE United states every losses a lot of money due to content piracy. According to diplomatic courier, “Although legal content distribution services like Netflix, Crackle, iTunes, Hulu, Amazon, Epix, and Vudu have again made accessing entertainment content legally more convenient, it is estimated that online piracy costs the U.S. economy somewhere around $250 billion per year. When content is illegally taken and distributed, income stops, jobs cannot be supported, and people are left unemployed. There is no question that content piracy has had a negative impact on everyone involved in the entertainment industry and on the overall global economy.” (Scholes)The effect that piracy leaves even if not known to the public ,it still affects the economy in a huge way and the development of the piracy of movie or online content has to be curbed to stop the loss of billions to something that could be used to better the community and country as a

Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to accurately track the revenues or the money lost from the piracy market. This is because like any black market, it goes undetected. However it is like the big elephant in the room, it definitely exists. However, just because I know it exists doesn’t mean I know how to interpret the results

Due to the attractiveness of piracy, there has been an overall trend of a drastically increasing amount of pirate attacks and attempts. In the year 2000, worldwide piracy attacks that were reported to the International Maritime Bureau totaled 469 separate incidents, which was an increase of 56% when compared to the previous year’s figures (Rosenberg). This graph by David Rosenberg visually depicts this trend of an exponential increase in piracy reporting from 1978-2000:

As the success of services like Hulu and Netflix suggests, consumers are only too happy to pay for content that 's made available in a convenient form, and at a reasonable price. If the content industries want a genuinely effective way to reduce global piracy, they should spend less time and money lobbying for new regulations, and focus on providing innovative services that make piracy unattractive. [5]

People most affected in the media industry are the ones working behind the scenes. When content is illegally taken and distributed, these people will not be paid for their hard work. Jobs cannot be supported and they will be forced to leave. For artistes and other media creators, they may feel that their work is unrewarding and would not be motivated to continue. As a result, not only does piracy bring down the economy, the creative industry will also

he Pirate Bay (TPB), a Swedish Web site (Piratebay.org), is one of the world's most popular pirated music and content sites, offering free access to millions of copyrighted songs and thousands of copyrighted Hollywood movies. In June 2011, The Pirate Bay reported that it h ad about 5 million registered users, and 25 million non-registered users (so-called "free riders"). To put that number in p erspective, consider that it is nearly three times the population of Sweden itself (9 million). The Pirate Bay is regularly in the top 100 most popular Web sites in the world, and reach es 1 % of the global Internet popula­ tion, according to Internet analysts in 20ll.