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Bulgaria 'leads in internet piracy in the EU'
Bulgaria leads the way in piracy in the European Union, according to Frances Moore, executive vice president and regional director for Europe of the International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI), broadcaster bTV reported on April 27 2010.
Moore said that since 2008, more than 100 000 jobs had been lost in the "arts sector" in the EU. If internet piracy continues to develop at the same rate, by 2015 about 1.2 million people would be out of work, he said.
It is estimated that as much as 60 per cent of all software in Bulgaria is pirated.
Among the measures that need to be implemented in the country are amendments to existing legislation. Additionally, internet providers should "police" their clients and make sure they do not use pirated software, music and films.
Internet providers should be issued with a warning initially, and subsequently fined, if they fail to act.
A memorandum was signed in the Interior Ministry in Sofia on April 27 which is aimed to combat intellectual piracy in Bulgaria. The document was signed by Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the IFPI and the distributors union of business software.
Moore said that since 2008, more than 100 000 jobs had been lost in the "arts sector" in the EU. If internet piracy continues to develop at the same rate, by 2015 about 1.2 million people would be out of work, he said.
It is estimated that as much as 60 per cent of all software in Bulgaria is pirated.
Among the measures that need to be implemented in the country are amendments to existing legislation. Additionally, internet providers should "police" their clients and make sure they do not use pirated software, music and films.
Internet providers should be issued with a warning initially, and subsequently fined, if they fail to act.
A memorandum was signed in the Interior Ministry in Sofia on April 27 which is aimed to combat intellectual piracy in Bulgaria. The document was signed by Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the IFPI and the distributors union of business software.
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60 percent?Are you kidding me?I can find ANY game,movie,song that i whant and download it for free.There are websites devoted to piracy with probably more than 100TB of pirated data EACH.
"1.2 million people would be out of work" ,yeah right..There are about 7 million citizens in Bulgaria..a lot less than the population of New York or some other big city in the USA.I find it hard to believe that just becouse of this so many people are losing their jobs.My family has an income of about 1400USD per month or 17000USD per year.And we are still considered [...]
Read the full comment wealthier than average.There are games that cost more than 100USD..piracy has become part of our daily life becouse of that and we are sorry that we cant allow a single LEGAL product.There is only ONE legal thing that we have ever bought and that was a game which costs 15USD ,and these are my stats in a torrent - Uploaded(Seeded): 2.37 TB Downloaded: 1.78 TB ,and im still 15 ,and i probably download atleast 5gb every day and some days more than 50.I cant even imagine what my stats would be like when im 18.Thats why i doubt this can be easily changed..
Ever heard of mail order or online shopping? Keyword in shopping is PAYING!
i would love to see mr moore produce a single solid piece of evidence for his claims. truth is, he doesn't have any.
100 000 jobs lost in the arts sector since 2008? well... there's been this thing called a global financial crisis that started, oh well, late 2008?
has the arts sector in the eu been hit worse than other sectors by it? probably, as most eu member states have almost scrapped any state funding for the arts since 2008.
60 per cent of software in bulgaria pirated? whose [...]
Read the full comment figures are those? by what count?
as for evidence for these figures? there is none!
@Dominic: theft is what the law says is theft.
Intellectual property laws change all the time. For much of the seventeenth and eighteenth century there were no copyright laws. Before the coming of printing authors competed to get the most people to copy and spread their work!
Since then the situation has constantly changed. One minute copyright is thirty years, the next it is thirty years after the death of the author.
The point is that the coming of the internet has changed the way people interact. It [...]
Read the full comment is not 'theft' for me to sell an old book to a secondhand shop so why should it be 'theft' to pass along a copy of a film I have watched and don't want to see again?
Laws need to change to reflect new technological realities.
Theft is theft. But it's no help when Amazon won't let me have an MP3 track (while I'm in Bulgaria) although I'm happy to pay for it!
"Does that mean nobody has to think about any laws? Does that mean anyone can just do as he or she likes? Does anyone needs movie rentals with the amount of tv channels available in Bulgaria? "
TV channels don't show the newest movies. In a small town without movie rental and theater you don't have any other option than to pirate or to not watch new movies. And I bet one reason for them not to exist is that people pirate so much that nobody uses those services.
These figures of 100,000 jobs are complete bull. These people think they just have to put out a press release and the public and government will roll over.
On the topic of software piracy I would love to ask the people at Microsoft exactly what proportion of new features they include in Windows have been taken from the non-copyrighted Linux software.
As to 'the arts', artists get only a very small proportion of the price of an album. 'Piracy' is actually good for smaller bands as it gets them new listeners who [...]
Read the full comment might turn up for live performances where the band gets a bigger proportion of the revenue.
Regarding films, the line between watching a film on cable and downloading it is a narrow one. There are lots of films that I want to see that never get shown on TV but that I just want to watch once not buy on DVD.
There are many more reasons why the whole 'piracy' story is a load of nonsense. Last year seven Swedish MPs said as much in a letter to the national press. You can read more at:
http://iwouldntsteal.net/
Sharing is expanding culture not killing it!
Does that mean nobody has to think about any laws? Does that mean anyone can just do as he or she likes? Does anyone needs movie rentals with the amount of tv channels available in Bulgaria?
It tells something that in a town size of Ruse there is not even a single movie theater... Not to talk about small towns without movie rents.
"internet providers should "police" their clients and make sure they do not use pirated software, music and films"
They mean the same internet providers who provide you in internet with whatever you want? Don't make me laugh!
Who exactly are these 1.2 million "artists" who are going to lose their jobs? Because I haven't heard of a single concert, gallery opening, movie or theater production being canceled because of internet piracy. The only ones losing money are the fat cats in the RIAA and IFPI who tax people for enjoying art that someone else made.
I can't think of any EU movie in the torrents, any good book being printed without the author's consent...
It appears EU is in a slump in regards to culture production and the usual suspect is always piracy.
We've heard that before and it does not seem to be even close to the truth.