Delegates to the ACTA discussions are now safe and sound back in their home countries convinced that they have been successful in aiding in stamping out copyright infringement.
History has taught us that every-time the music industry or Government enact prosecutorial or legislative actions against file sharing, the resulting pushback always seems to trump the original file sharing incursion.
New programs, new servers, new locations, new technologies and new players.
We have blogged about this before and stated that unless the industry stops attempting to stop file sharing it will disappear under a cloud of invisibility.
It would appear that whilst some Governments are attempting to stamp out perceived copyright infringement, others may not be so inclined.
In underground bunkers in country’s that won’t be signing up to ACTA anytime soon, the geeks are plying their file-sharing trade with impunity.
Earlier this year, Torrentfreak announced that the
Following the earlier court defeat for Fredrik, Gottfrid
and Peter and the pending civil action taken by several
It didn’t take long for some Russian opportunists to get their site up and going.
154 listings for the latest Michael Jackson documentary movie, “This is it”.
http://torrents.rapid4me.com/?q=michael+jackson%27s+this+is+it+subs+nl
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Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson's This Is It - OST - 2009 The Music That Inspired The Movie |
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And of course there are longtime sites like Baidu.com which
are rated number one in China and according to alexa are: The leading
Chinese language search engine, provides "simple and reliable" search
experience, strong in Chinese language and multi-media content including MP3
music and movies, the first to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search in China.
How Baidu.com is ranked around the world:
- 1 China
- 14 South Korea
- 20 Taiwan
- 395 United States
Alexa Global rank = 9
So where is this new pushback site located?
Google Geo locate places it 180 metres from the Kremlin in
Does this mean that the comrade citizens are now attempting to undermine the American copyright system?
So if ACTA is passed, who will it affect? Certainly not the one third of the world resident in the Soviet-Sino region of the world.
It makes the proposed ACTA Treaty all a bit pointless really.
The way forward is obviously not legislative. The file-sharing servers just move.
Diplomacy will be the obvious next round of content company lobbying. Designed to posit the ACTA member countries against the non-member countries.
Just how far will the members go?
Will they opt to stop all trade with the ACTA infringing countries?
Australian Exports to
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China's principal import sources, 2008: |
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2 Republic of |
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3 Japan 8.1% |
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Australian
merchandise trade with China, 2008-09: Total share: Rank: Growth (yoy):
Exports to
Imports from
Total trade (exports + imports) (A$m): 76,356 17.0% 1st 31.6%
No. Obviously not. Therein lies commercial suicide.
So what is the solution?
At Perceptric we have been saying for sometime that file sharing is and should be considered a Public Relations cost.
However we have also said that file-sharing impacts the post initial ramp up catalogue sales.
Our thesis is twofold.
- File sharing promotes the artists, actors, directors amongst a community that would not otherwise be able to view or listen to the content.
- There is a long term loss to the catalogue value of content when the credentials of the artist, actor, director have already been established.
For example, The Beatles. There is no valid reason for file sharing Beatles songs as they are already a “made” brand.
Therefore except for those people that are too poor, too remote or in areas where distribution of Beatles records are not available in a format desired by the consumer; where obviously point 1 above would apply.
It would appear that in the main, file-sharers would agree with me. ED2K Beatles links are less than 2,000 with minimal daily activity.
I doubt that EMI’s current woes would disappear if everyone stopped file sharing the Beatles.
Ergo, File sharing is not really damaging the economy. So is ACTA merely yet another “Watch this hand, don’t watch the other hand… watch this hand.”
Goombridge [2001] states that in his opinion, it is obvious
that “that the United
States will continue to remain at the forefront of shaping
Western policy responses to
My question is, can we as a country allow another nation (
ACTA is not about File sharing, it is the next stage of a currency War that began with the discovery of oil and has had several escalations in the last twenty years.
The
The Euro
And now, Chinese citizens can afford to buy motor vehicles.
ACTA is being conducted by the
However, when American Statespersons (Hilary Clinton) are taken for a walk within metres of the latest torrent tracker on Russian hallowed ground – I think file sharing is here to stay unless ACTA is the precursor to a Global military escalation.
On that basis alone, I urge Global Governments to consider a user pays Internet Licence from which to satisfy all copyright infringement claims thereby clearing the decks for beneficial Trade advancement.
References:
The
Written by enigmax on
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-taken-offline-by-swedish-authorities-090824/
Alexa Traffic Rank for Baidu
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/baidu.com
DFAT
http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/fs/chin.pdf
Last Modified: 2009-11-10
Groombridge, M., 2001, Economic relations after
http://www.cap.lmu.de/transatlantic/download/groombridge.pdf.
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Time Magazine
http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/11/14/4379856.html
