Google in the input: = ashops.us ==you can find many brand names, even more surprising is that he will sell you the unexpected o(?_?)o

Google in the input: = ashops.us ==you can find many brand names, even more surprising is that he will sell you the unexpected o(?_?)o

The way he’s written it leaves a HUGE hole in non-commercial (or “social”) filesharing :( One that could quite easily have been filled by spelling out the likely effects on the various market operators if Draconian laws were in fact put into operation to try and stop all forms of sharing (including real piracy, ie for profit).

The key sentence for me in what you’ve quoted Doc is, “Emphasising enforcement as an alternative to improved digital licensing and modernised copyright law is the wrong approach.”

THAT is cool :)

“8.17 In an attempt to sketch out a “worst case” assessment of the cost of copyright infringement to the economy, we have taken a number of estimates of the level of infringement cited by the business sectors affected and expressed the cost of this estimated infringement as a percentage of the relevant territory’s economy for the relevant year.

[…] On these numbers, copyright infringement appears to account for just under 0.1 per cent of economic activity, whether this concerns the UK, the EU or the whole world. The total cost of IP crime amounts to between 0.1 per cent and 0.5 per cent of economic activity.

This suggests that the cost of IPR infringement is neither negligible nor overwhelming in economic scale, even if we work from industry’s own estimates of the problem.”

“8.19 Another way of looking at economic impact of copyright infringement is to calculate it with regard to the creative industries, rather than to the whole economy, in order to assess the sectoral point of view.

A study conducted for Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) puts a value on losses from piracy equivalent to 1.24 per cent of the contribution that the core copyright industries make to the UK economy.

We have examined this frequently cited study and found a number of methodological limitations, which together indicate likely overstatement of the extent and impact of piracy. This suggests that the 1.24 per cent figure is also at the upper end of probability.”

“8.20 Where else can we look for evidence of the damage done by piracy and the current enforcement regime? Creative industry sales-figures provide a clue.

In the UK music industry, though some individual businesses have suffered dramatically from the boom in digital downloads (HMV, the music retailer is an example) music industry revenues overall have continued to grow year on year: to £3.9 billion in 2009, up five per cent on 2008, driven by strong figures from live music, growth in international licensing and some stabilisation in the recorded music market.

In the much bigger publishing market, figures from the Publishers Association show that book sales have also grown or maintained their net value between 2004 and 2009. The video sector too has managed to maintain unit sales, but struggled somewhat to sustain value in the last two to three years. All of this in spite of recession in Europe and North America.”

“8.45 The most confident conclusion we can draw from our experience of digital content markets to date is that we need a combination of enforcement, education and a big push to expand the legitimate market for digital content, through services which attract consumers of all ages and backgrounds.

It will be important to ensure that enforcement measures are not designed or implemented in a way that alienates consumers and undermines work in education and extending the appeal of legitimate markets.

Emphasising enforcement as an alternative to improved digital licensing and modernised copyright law is the wrong approach. Action is needed on all fronts.”

My conclusion is this:

Dear Shergar, you are wrong, now fuck off.
Dear Jack Murdock, you are wrong, now fuck off.
Dear MAFIAA trolls of all persuasions, you are all clearly wrong and a total waste of our time, now fuck off.

Yours sincerely,
DG100, on behalf of reality.