[DMCA_Discuss] Bloomberg article on US Rep Schiff's copyright protection act

[tom poe]

Hi:  Very good email.  Enjoyed it.  I sent one as well, and hopefully, a lot 
of the other list members will too.  My only suggestion would be to figure 
out a neat way to insert a recommendation the author[s] always take the time 
to get the facts by visiting http://www.eff.org/.  What do you think?
Thanks,
tom
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On Saturday 13 April 2002 20:24, Larry Blunk wrote:
> I just came across this Bloomberg article in today's Detroit News
> at http://www.detnews.com/2002/technology/0204/13/technology-463117.htm.
> There's not much new here, but what caught my eye was the reporter's
> assertion as fact of Disney's and News Corp's claims of "billions"
> in losses.  I think we have done a poor job of informing the press
> and our representatives that these claims of "losses" are purely
> fictional.  Here is my email to the reporter (Katherine Reynolds Lewis)
> who authored this article --
>
>
>  Dear Ms. Lewis,
>     I wish to take issue with your statement that Disney and News Corp. are
> losing "billions of dollars to piracy".  While it is fair to say that the
> "value" of their content being pirated is "estimated" to be in the
> billions, it is utterly false to claim these as "losses".   There is no
> cost to these companies for these duplicated works.  And there is
> absolutely no reason to believe that if such unauthorized copies could be
> magically stopped, it would translate into sales that equalled their
> estimated value.  Do you really believe a person living on third-world
> wages and paying $1 a copy for movies and software would buy such items in
> the same quantities if charged full retail prices in the 10's or 100's of
> dollars?  Or the individual engaged in trading 10's or 100's of MP3 audio
> files per month would pay the 100's of dollars per month these files are
> valued at if such trading were impossible?
>
>     In short, the "billions in losses" claimed by Disney and News Corp. are
> outright fabrications.  There are as equally outrageous as Enron Corp's
> accounting of "billions" in profits.
>
>
>  Sincerely,
>     Larry J. Blunk
>
>
>
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