more on now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: ritholtz () optonline net
Date: August 14, 2005 8:23:28 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: marcaniballi () hotmail com, smb () cs columbia edu
Subject: Re: [IP] more on now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing


Dave,

That stat is extremely misleading -- its not the home user that is  
doing all the burning that endangers the Labels -- its the illegal  
mass counterfeiter.

Further, there is a legal difference between a fair use copy and an  
illegal commercial counterfeit. Making a copy for personal usage is  
allowed under copyright law -- as a back up, for the car, etc. That's  
considered "fair use."

The statistic 29% is misleading -- The real number is 35%; That's the  
number, according to a study last summer, of all CDs SOLD which are  
iIllegal dupes:
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/07/35_of_all_cds_a.html

Here's an excerpt:
"The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has  
published a report claiming that 35% of all CDs sold around the world  
are illegal copies � that's 1.1 billion pirate disks. The report  
also includes a list of countries recommended for government action:  
Brazil, China, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Spain, Taiwan,  
Thailand and Ukraine.

Sales of illegal discs rose 4% in 2004, though the year saw the  
slowest increase since 2000, an indication that increased anti-piracy  
activity is having a positive effect.

Clearly the biggest threat to the record industry today is not P2P  
networks but the more traditional CD copying seen in the the IFPI's  
ten priority countries where anti-piracy offensives are most needed."


Its not P2P or personal copies at home that should be of the greatest  
concern to the music industry -- its the massive counterfeiting  
operations spinning out 100s of thousands of discs for sale, both  
abroad and in North America.

A consumer who buys a disc, and then makes a back up (or even shares  
a copy with a friend) is the very least of the major labels worries.


Barry Ritholtz
The Big Picture
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/





----- Original Message -----
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Saturday, August 13, 2005 3:40 pm
Subject: [IP] more on  now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing


> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Marc <marcaniballi () hotmail com>
> Date: August 13, 2005 3:41:36 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: RE: [IP] now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
>
>
> The Software industry has been at this a lot longer than the music
>
> industry.
> Have these RIAA idiots not thought to ask about effective copy
> protection of
> physical media? They probably wouldn't like the answer - It can't
> be
> done! A
> hack will always be found and propagated globally within days.
>
> You may have noticed that there has been very little activity from
>
> the major
> software vendors trying to shut down the Kazaas and Bittorrents of the
> world; even though they "suffer" just as much if not more than the
>
> RIAA and
> MPAA together. Maybe they know something?!
>
>
> Marc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 2:40 PM
> To: Ip Ip
> Subject: [IP] now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
> Date: August 13, 2005 2:13:05 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: now it's CD burning, instead of file-sharing
>
>
> Remember how file-sharing was the one true threat to the music
> industry?  Well, now it's CD burning instead.
>
>      ''Burned'' CDs accounted for 29 percent of all recorded music
>      obtained by fans in 2004, compared to 16 percent attributed to
>      downloads from online file-sharing networks, said Mitch Bainwol,
>      chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of
> America.
>      ....
>
>      Copy protection technology ''is an answer to the problem that
>      clearly the marketplace is going to see more of,'' he added.
>
> More details at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Music-
> Retailers.html
>
> (Aside: does anyone else remember their assault on cassette tapes
> about 20 years ago, where they wanted to encode an allegedly-inaudible
> signal that recorders would recognize?  That attempt failed when it
> was demonstrated that the chosen signal was, in fact, quite audible
> on certain types of music.)


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