The picture above is the 5 top countries that have the least rate of software piracy deployed.
And this one is the 5 countries that have the highest rate of pirated software deployed.
As you can see the two pictures, the average of the pirated software deployed is 59%, more than half. Also the developed countries tend to have lower rate of software piracy and developing countries have the high percentage. Perhaps in developing countries, they have a lot more poor people that do not have enough money to buy software legally, because they have lower salary. But what I also think is because people who live in developing countries do not have opportunities to buy legally like they do in developed country. For example iTunes store, the most famous store to buy music, movies and other medias in these days. But even iTunes don’t expand a lot its business to the developing countries, which makes the consumers much difficult to buy their product, so it cause the high rate of producing pirated products. Like here in Venezuela, currency is a problem so it is not easy to get imported product, impossible to buy products from iTunes. On the street, the people are selling pirated movies and songs and there are sometimes polices standing right next to them but they do not even care.
So once again my opinion, it cannot be helped that piracy issue in developing countries get worse, unless those companies try to expand their business to developing countries, giving the consumers to have much more opportunities to buy their product like it does in developed countries.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-software-piracy-rate
Music industry sings different tune
The fact, from this article, when piracy became a problem, music was the first media that was seriously affected by it. Especially during the last decade, the number of products sold by the music sales had fallen by more than a third. Plus 95% of download on internet is illegal, so we can tell that piracy is very serious problem. http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1152863.html
The fact, from this article, when piracy became a problem, music was the first media that was seriously affected by it. Especially during the last decade, the number of products sold by the music sales had fallen by more than a third. Plus 95% of download on internet is illegal, so we can tell that piracy is very serious problem. http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1152863.html
Finally, what do you people think the sellers should do to have the least amount of pirated products? Expanding the companies to the dfeveloping countries is a god idea, but consider that it is very hard to open stores in those countries because it is expectable that the company will not get much profit like they would do in develope countries, where they have less rate of pirated product deployed.
By seeing the charts above most of those countri Ibelive thay have bigger oppotrunities to find music online. While thos countries who have higher privacy rates have less opportunities. ountries such as Venezuela sont have the opprtunites so they tend to have more piracy. Eventhough p2p programs help new artist to devbelop and raise their voices they also have a negative side. In order to fight piracy I believe programs such as iTunes should be available worlwide not only in the US and Europe. By giving more opportunities to find and buy music and media online probably the privacy rates will decrease.
ReplyDeleteIs clear that developing countries will always have a higher percentage of piracy than developed countries, simple because developing countries don't have the tools to get legal music, the problem is that nobody does anything to change this, they seem to do the opposite by not advertising legal music to these countries as they do in developed countries. I think is very hard these days to stop or decrease piracy when is increasing so fast, but if big companies could find an easy way to bring legal music to developing countries, people who can buy music at these prices would buy it, but since this doesn't exist as we see for example in itunes, and most people in developing countries are poor they don't have more option than to buy piracy music.
ReplyDeleteIt was no shock for me to see that developing countries had higher rates of piracy than developed countries. Even though it's sometimes because people don't want to pay a higher price for a real CD, DVD or whatever it is, but its also because the provider does not provide for that specific country.
ReplyDeleteFor example there are some programs that when you want to download a video, that you pay for, it says you require to be in that particular country in order to be bale for you to download. Then that leads to just get it for free from programs like Limewire, torrents and so on.
I think that this is a really interesting article because you can clearly see the piracy issues in two different types of countries. Although I strongly agree with the fact that piracy should be prevented and it is a major problem in the internet these days, the reality is that piracy is an issue that is hard to prevent, especially since the development of torrents. Even though some people say that P2P is a great way to distribute songs from unknown bands or artists, people are not so naive as to not take advantage of the free content. So before doing anything else, I think that we should first raise awareness of the implication and harms that can be done by infringing copyrights.
ReplyDeletei would have to agree with all of you, because this topic is very simple and goes straight to the point with its idea that piracy is a gre4at issue in the whole world and that we should erradicate it. on the other hand, i would also have to disagree with all of you, because some developing countries like venezulea for example, seem to not have a solution for this as more than 4% of the population in venezuela earns money thanks to piracy. while fully developed countries dont have that kind of a problem.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion it is obvious that there is much more pirating of DVD’s and CD’s in third world or developing countries because the restrictions are much less than those of first world nations. Comparing our own Venezuela with the U.S., here things are very relaxed, government officials don’t pay much attention to that matter specially because they have other more important things on their agenda. Instead in the U.S. there is much less crime and much more involvement by the government for people to follow the laws. The penalty a person would receive here for sell this would never be the same than the harsh one in the U.S.
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