Piracy cut in half in France, yet music and movie revenues fell

[n2doc]

France made waves in the P2P industry by implementing a controversial graduated response program in 2010 that was designed to reduce the amount of illegal downloads by establishing progressively-harsher penalties on file sharers. The results were strong, as shown in Hadopi’s report, with file-sharing activities traffic slashed by two-thirds in 2011. However, the goal of increasing revenues in the French music and movie industries did not materialize and revenues fell in both industries.

The French music market fell 3.9% in 2011 while the video market fell 2.7%.

As Ernesto of TorrentFreak says, “If we follow the logic employed by the anti-piracy lobby during the past decade, this means that piracy is actually boosting sales.”

The declines in revenue were inevitable and will continue as technology makes it less-expensive to be entertained. Legal downloads and streaming services do not generate the revenue nor the profits that DVDs and CDs once did. The obsessive pursuits by governments, lobbyists, and anti-piracy organizations are wastes of energy when the real challenge the industries face are evolutionary. They are simply not adapting fast enough.

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http://www.techi.com/2012/03/piracy-cut-in-half-in-france-yet-music-and-movie-revenues-fell/

[ejpoeta]

1. kind of hurts the idea that piracy is why they are

losing money huh. Regardless of how one feels about file sharing, the idea that it is the reason the music and movie industries are not making as much money is bogus.

[leeroysphitz]

2. I think we may have to wait until Music industry revenues from lawsuits exceed those from sales

before those who feel they have an absolute god given RIGHT to control and profit from the distribution of Music and Movies finally admit that they are behind the times. Nothing more than irrelevant middle-men taking their pointless cut.

I guess.

[pschoeb]

3. Misrepresents data

Heres the report on Music
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/french-online-music-worth-eur-110-mln-in-2011-study

The Music industry has been losing total sales for awhile, so France losing 3.9% is not necessarily bad, if the loss is less than normal. Now look at the rest of Europe, where the Music industry lost 9.6% in the same year, and you might come to a completely different conclusion, especially when you look at massive (89%) increase in streaming music like Spotify.

[Sea-Dog]

4. Here...

//The obsessive pursuits by governments, lobbyists, and anti-piracy organizations are wastes of energy when the real challenge the industries face are evolutionary.//

This