Hey, Music Industry. You're suing the wrong people

[Jack]

Open...and Shut After years of lawsuits and fearmongering by the music industry, one thing is clear about piracy: the industry has been suing the wrong people.

According to new research, file-sharing is rather limited in North America and the European Union, though running relatively rampant throughout Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. Back in 2002, Tim O'Reilly called piracy "progressive taxation" – an idea that resonates even more today than it did when O'Reilly first coined the term.

We don't have a music piracy problem. Rather, we have a music pricing problem, with music sales in emerging economies crippled by pricing strategies that don't differentiate between the comparatively rich West and its less-rich neighbors.

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[Deleted member 178]

oh they just wake up and found it just now... come on... same problem with softwares, in less-rich countries, for example, who will pay NIS 3 years for 3 machines around 150$...or a genuine Windows 7 or Photoshop cs5...

 

[MetalShaun]

I didn't read the whole article just quickly skimmed it, but there are also surveys that show that pirates and people that are regular visitors to underground websites actually spend more money on music, films etc and go the cinema more often then the average consumer. So they really are suing the wrong people.