[photopress:itaaronshawbach.jpg,full,alignright]Professor Aaron Schwabach at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego has written a 24-page report that essentially says China, taken as a whole, is not the leading global pirate. When figures are adjusted for population, China’s rates of intellectual property violation are lower than those of many other countries, including the United States.
The report concludes that the problem of movie piracy is more severe in the United States than in China, possibly because of greater broadband access, and more severe still in other countries, including France, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Aaron Schwabach writes: ‘Many who might have been willing to pay 60 cents for a pirated DVD of the mind-numbingly awful conclusion to the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy would have been unwilling to pay $22 for a licensed copy, or $11 per person to see the movie in a theater — or would have demanded their money back if they had.’
Same goes for music. On his figures China’s per capita theft figure is $0.68 while Mexico’s is $6.53.
Elsewhere, Schwabach argues that some of the worst piracy occurs in the West, but escapes media attention ‘because it is online and thus less visible.’
In fact, much of the noise about piracy comes from Microsoft which possibly has much more of a case as far as software in concerned. However, the steps it has taken to constantly check software are working. As is the thought that if shove comes to push you can always switch to Linux.
Source: China Rises
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