(Propaganda poster to stop illegal downloading and making aware how they are being seen all the time)
Internet have spread throughout the world and people use them daily. Internet brought us great convenience to our lives, allowing us to download various files such as musics and movies. However, as downloading flourished, illegal downloads has come up as a recent issue. Lately in the past few years, a lot of countries started to pass specific laws for internet piracy. Depending on the countries, their action towards piracy and public's reaction towards it are different.
Some countries that pushes the anti-piracy law strongly are Canada and Australia. In Canada, the law was renewed recently so that content producers can go after people who are sharing illegal contents (like what it is said in the poster above!). Furthermore, Canadian Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement has noticed the people how they have the technology to monitor piracy to make the public aware of the situation. Through this movement, they have found more than one million Canadians that share copyrighted contents over the internet. As an example, one person payed two million dollars for downloading only two illegal movies. Similarly in Australia, after Australian Copyright Council passed the copyright law in 1968, there was one person who payed 150 million dollars for providing P2P software illegally.
You can watch the news showing the situation in Canada here.
There are also countries that recently passed laws such as New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea. Anti-piracy law was passed in April 2011 in New Zealand. However, it did not really affect the sales. In fact after passing the law the revenue fell 2.1% in 2012. In Japan, when the law was passed in June 2012, the total revenue grew by 4 % but digital revenue fell 24.5% so again, the law did not make a difference in sales. Just like Japan, in South Korea, law passed in 2009 and the revenue grew 4.4 % and digital revenue dropped by 25%.
Unlike New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea, in France, as soon as the law was passed in 2009, digital sale grew by 32.4%. This shows how public were aware about the issue. Surprisingly, U.S does not have a specific law that regulates piracy. However, the private institutions that manages the issue make the public aware of the situation. That organization is called, Center of Copyright Information. Similar to what Canadian Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement are doing, they use the system called The Copyright Alert System, or the Six Strikes, to find people that are downloading illegal files from the internet and notify them to stop. This has been a big news recently making the public alert.
Reaction towards piracy is different between culture. I believe it also depends on how much the government or organizations have pushed the issue to make the public aware. Myself, living Japan, I do not really hear much about internet piracy. Furthermore, other than these countries, a lot of developing countries such as Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and a lot more still does not have the law for internet piracy and have increasing number of crimes. Making the public more aware of piracy is important not only for the economy but also for ourselves. Both to show respect to the industry and also to protect ourselves from being convicted, lets resist downloading illegal files.
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It's interesting how countries respond to piracy issue differently depending on the country. I also agree that no matter where we live we all should show some more respect towards movie industries, first, by avoiding any activities related to piracy issue.
返信削除Wow - this some good analysis of great visual rhetoric (the campaign poster). The information posted here about the topic, and the news sources that provide more information, is all interesting and shows clearly what you want to say about your topic, but I was hoping to see something here related to your organization and issue... Do be sure to post something about it soon.
返信削除Looking forward to the next post!
Having many reliable facts and statistics, your analysis is quite convincing. It is interesting to think about the law toward piracy. Because I have same topic for my research, your information is helpful for me as well. I personally think that even there are strong law toward piracy, there are so many way to trick them and allow people to download movies. Preventing piracy seems difficult.
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