Once again folks we see the same conclusions made but the recording industry never seem to wake up to.
http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-caused-by-poor-choice-080305/According to a new study just released in the UK, one of the biggest causes of copyright infringement is a lack of choice. The study further shows that one third of the Brits have downloaded copyright infringing content, or plans to do so in the future.
This claim, published in the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey is only reiterating what has been said many times before – that trying to promote the artificial scarcity is what is fueling piracy.
In total, 70% of those who admitted to piracy agreed that “legal sites just don’t have the range of illegal ones” (try looking for Beatles tracks) whilst almost as many said they would pay for downloads, if what they wanted was available. This is probably also one of the main reasons why half of the BitTorrent downloads are TV-shows.
The fact that one third of the UK citizens can be labeled as a pirate is thus a signal that these customers want something that is not available through other channels. It’s more about availability than the fact that it’s free.
I,m sure this study will be ignored as have all the other studies stating the same reasons for the massive following filesharing networks have.
The bottom line is to give the consumer what they want, when they want, it and at a fair price, if the cartel had not sought to be so greedy they would have had all this in place and be rather better off than they now claim to be, will they take notice yet do you think ?
