Illegal file-sharing downloads 'costs UK

[chemical-licker]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...-jobs-year.html

Illegal file-sharing downloads 'costs UK £12.5bn and thousands of jobs a year'

Seven million people in Britain are costing the economy billions and thousands of jobs by using illegal downloads, a report has revealed today.

Shared content of music and video files on one network was worth around £12billion per year, according to research commissioned by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP).

The network had 1.3 million users sharing files online at midday on a weekday. If each of those downloaded just one file per day, this would amount to 4.73 billion items being consumed for free every year.

oh i feel so sorry for the economy, why dont the powers make just make up the money by i dont know making it up by introducing figures into the economy. like this

i have no money

In the right place £1000000000000000000.00 sorted

[GreyWeather]

The downloads would be something like. 1% or something of total film / music business profits. Bands get their money from gigs, hardly anything from their albums.

I think this is just a load of propaganda. They've been spewing a lot in the last year.

[Cradle of Fish]

That's what happen when you try to make art an industry, the people fight back.

[itsnotoutthere]

Illegal file-sharing downloads 'costs UK £12.5bn and thousands of jobs a year'

Er....no it doesn't.....NEXT

[acidhead]

Im not so sure about the claim that illegal down loads 'costs' the industry the said amount of money.

Its missleading... but hey we are talking about MSM using their tools to 'help' out another huge corporate enterprise.

Its about laying 'claim' to projected profits more than anything else.

Take the motor vehicle insurance companies for example....

.... when claims are up they cry 'loses' even though the company nets record profits every year... they just don't 'meet' the projected profits promised to share holders.

So they cry about losing money.

Edited May 29, 2009 by acidhead

[itsnotoutthere]

If it wasn't for downloads legal or otherwise, the record producers would see to it that we were still paying £12 for a cd & £20 for a dvd in the stores.

[atom286]

The downloads would be something like. 1% or something of total film / music business profits. Bands get their money from gigs, hardly anything from their albums.

I think this is just a load of propaganda. They've been spewing a lot in the last year.

My advice is to completely give up, become an alcoholic, have 15 kids and live the life of luxury off the state.

Then you'll have the money to buy whatever you want without resorting to such things as priacy and the state will even chuck in a mansion for you to live in!

[atom286]

If it wasn't for downloads legal or otherwise, the record producers would see to it that we were still paying £12 for a cd & £20 for a dvd in the stores.

Yep its like buses.

They put their prices up whenever the cost of petrol increases however when the price goes back down you still pay the higher rate for your ticket.

[GreyWeather]

My advice is to completely give up, become an alcoholic, have 15 kids and live the life of luxury off the state.

Then you'll have the money to buy whatever you want without resorting to such things as priacy and the state will even chuck in a mansion for you to live in!

DONE!

Wanna handshake on that?

I don't pirate. I just wait for a month(s) for when the prices drop on the internet. Ebay, Amazon, online deals at HMV or Virgin ect. I ain't paying £15 for a dvd that I'll most likely hate (especially if it's a new movie. Hollywood are a bore.) Now, a fiver or so, no problem.

[GreyWeather]

Yep its like buses.

They put their prices up whenever the cost of petrol increases however when the price goes back down you still pay the higher rate for your ticket.

Get a Mango card. You save 25%, so you're basically paying the right price.

[Admiral Danger]

theyre just over reacting. they only get that number because if we didnt download these files and instead bought them then they would probably make 12.5bn and create thousands of jobs. they havent technicaly lost any money, its just theoretical. i think

Edited May 30, 2009 by Dr Alien

[ExpandMyMind]

this number makes the intentional assumption that everything watched/listened to on the computer would be purchased in stores if it hadn't been downloaded.

when most of the people i know who download, watch things they would never have seen normally and most definately never have purchased.

they don't lose anywhere near as much as they claim.