Re: DRM, Intel, Sony, virtualization and backdoors

From: Bernd Paysan (bernd.paysan_at_gmx.de)
Date: 06/12/05 

Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:28:57 +0200

Colonel Forbin wrote:

> In article <*firstname*nlsnews-407A73.18083611062005@news.verizon.net>,
> Tony Nelson <*firstname*nlsnews@georgea*lastname*.com> wrote:
>>
>>Consider Mexico, where the record industry has been demolished by
>>piracy. It has, at least, resulted in many acts moving to the US where
>>they can make a living selling records.
>
> The whole Mexican economy was rooted in piracy. Claiming that there
> was some sort of meaningful industry which was "demolished" by piracy
> there is absurd.

We have something similar to Mexico here in Europe, it's North Africa
(Maghreb). There, the whole record economy is based on piracy, too, but
there are several active and quite popular artists (some of them are even
popular in parts of Europe, such as France). They earn their money by
performing concerts and by selling into Europe. If they would stop piracy
in their rather poor home-countries, they would - as a side effect - stop
advertising for their concerts, and in turn sales into Europe. You
basically can't sell a CD at $15 into Maghreb, but you can sell a pirated
one at $1 or below.

If you manage to sell legal CDs at about the same price as pirated, you can
also stomp out piracy. It requires to have a highly efficient sales
channel, though. 

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/

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