Reminder: Please Help Us Calculate The 'Cost' Of Overprotective Copyright Laws
from the estimation-is-good dept
A quick reminder here. After a Senate-commission report by the US ITC concerning "losses" from China due to intellectual property infringement, we noted that the methodology was ridiculous. The ITC simply went out and asked some of the biggest companies who rely on IP how much they thought they "lost," and used that to extrapolate a number. In what world is it the appropriate methodology to ask those who would financially benefit the most from greater protectionism to provide accurate data about the need for that protectionism? However, if that methodology is considered credible for the US Senate and the ITC, we figured we might as well use the identical methodology to calculate the "loss" the public has dealt with due to overprotective copyright laws. Of course, unlike the ITC, we actually asked people to "be reasonable." You can provide your own thoughts in the form below:Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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The cost of things not purchased
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http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-japan-d-avatar-real-world.html
Miku is a virtual artist, that has more than 30 thousand songs performed by her and she even get to play live thanks to the magic of modern technology.
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Using that as a base of what is being lost in cultural terms I would say I lost something in the ballpark of $1.5 million dollars due not to being able to access 150 thousands works not created that would cost $10 bucks each.
Am I not being reasonable?
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My Annual "Losses"
Also, here are the sources I forgot to list in the submission:
1) http://www.the-numbers.com/market/movies2010.php
2) http://www1.salary.com/Chemical-Engineer-V-Salary.html
*I may have fudged the division by 2 for hours per movie, but its still perfectly within the ridiculous MPAA method of determining "losses" due to "piracy."
**To perform the calculation yourself, remove all the units and it should be a straight forward scientific calculator nightmare.
***This formula assumes no music was listened to, nor any music value was consumed during the movies, nor any additional value from the works licensed to the studio by their IP paranoia department, nor any other extraneous factors aside my insomnia, just the movies were counted based on average earnings.
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Dont for get the lawyers..
Those guys getting TONS of money to sit around and wait for the Industry to POINT a finger..
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Re: My Annual "Losses"
Well, more than the one "they" used.
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Re: Dont for get the lawyers..
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How about....
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DRM is saving me a fortune!
It has saved me a fortune on buying things and I've saved even more money on shelf space. This is also good for the environment as my shelves were wooden, thus no more trees need to be felled for my collection to be stored.
Oh, you mean how much has DRM cost me in terms of culture? Well, I was buying some Jazz CD's filled with Public Domain recordings from Naxos allowing me to hear 1930's jazz I had never heard before until our copyright law got extended in 2006 and now I can't get them anymore..... Not legally anyway.
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Actually since you can't get past the piracy warnings and what not it probably turns out to be about 2hrs each unless you watch any of the Lord of the Rings movies!
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