Coming Attractions: Opportunities and Challenges in Thwarting Global Movie Piracy

Ponte, Lucille M.

doi:10.4337/9781848444881.00014

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“…Strategies such as attacking warez suppliers, reducing the window between theater and DVD releases, improving the experience of consumers, and indexing the price of software with the gross national product (GNP) are all alternatives that have been proposed to regulate the warez scene (Bridy 2009;Gopal and Sanders 2000;Ponte 2008). …”

Section: The Regulation Of the Warez Scenementioning

confidence: 99%

“…They lobbied governments for new and more aggressive regulations of copyright infringements. They achieved their goal with the adoption of a slew of new laws and treaties including the No Electronic Theft Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the EU Copyright Directive (Goldman 2004; Marshall 2006; Ponte 2008). Some of these tools appear to be very effective.…”

Section: Hackers and The Warez Scenementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Each person charged under the NET Act has either been found guilty or has pleaded guilty (Goldman 2004). Corporations have also relied heavily on digital rights management (DRM) and regional codes to prevent piracy (Bridy 2009; Marshall 2006; Ponte 2008). These tools limit how an individual consumes copyrighted material.…”

Section: Hackers and The Warez Scenementioning

confidence: 99%

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Morselli

Leman‐Langlois

2011

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objectives. This article seeks to describe and understand the social organization as well as the distribution of recognition in the online community (also known as the warez scene) of hackers who illegally distribute intellectual property online. Method. The data were collected from an online index that curates a list of illegal content that was made available between 2003 and 2009. Sutherland's notion of behavior systems in crime as well as Boase and Wellman's notion of network individualism are used to theorize the social organization and the distribution of recognition in the warez scene. These were then analyzed using social network theory. Results. There is a strong correlation between the productivity of the hacking groups and the recognition they receive from their peers. These findings are limited by the lack of data on the internal operations of each hacking groups and by the aggregate nature of the network matrix. Conclusions. We find that hacking groups that make this online community generally have a very limited life span as well as low production levels. They work and compete in a very distributed and democratic community where we are unable to identify clear leaders.

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Section: The Regulation Of the Warez Scenementioning

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Section: Hackers and The Warez Scenementioning

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Morselli

Leman‐Langlois

2011

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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“…This segment is clearly the most harmful to the industry because of the volume of content they pirate and their ability to circumvent any sanctions (e.g. website blocking) as they consistently find new ways to source music for free (Ponte, ). What is potentially even more troublesome is that this group expresses little guilt regarding their actions, which raises issues about moral justifications, which are discussed next.…”

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Download or stream? Steal or buy? Developing a typology of today's music consumer

Sinclair

Green

2015

J of Consumer Behaviour

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This paper explores the impact that recent transformations in digital music technology (e.g. the increasing popularity of legal streaming platforms) have had on the consumer experience. Following 35 in-depth qualitative interviews, we have identified four key segments of contemporary music consumers (steadfast pirates, ex-downloaders, mixed tapes and the old schoolers [the disengaged]) based on a continuum of their preference for illegal music piracy. Examining key themes (e.g. morality, format, value and identity investment) to distinguish each segment, we contribute to a fragmented music piracy literature in particular through the identification of the "ex-downloaders" and "mixed tape" segments. Previous literature has tended to frame music piracy in very simplistic terms, failing to acknowledge a large number of consumers who are conflicted about their actions and rationalise their piracy in complicated and inconsistent ways related to the broader industry and their own sense of identity as a music consumer. Additionally, the discussion of the ex-downloader segment provides significant evidence that for a large number of consumers, a policy of participation, in the shape of providing superior alternatives for legal digital music consumption, can be much more beneficial in tackling the problem of piracy than previous strategies of policing and coercion. Managerial and future research implications are discussed

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“…In spite of these failures, similar legislation and criminalization of copyright infringement has also been enacted in the United Kingdom with the Serious Crime Act (), in Europe with the Directive on Copyright in the EU ([EUCD]; Directive, 2001) and even worldwide through the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty ([WIPO] ), which has been signed by over 85 countries (Ponte, ; Spencer, ). The case of the U.K.'s Serious Crime Act (2007) is particularly interesting, as it criminalizes the act of intentionally encouraging someone to commit an offense such as copyright infringement (Spencer, ).…”

Section: The Regulation Of the Warez Scenementioning

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Police Operations 3.0: On the Impact and Policy Implications of Police Operations on the Warez Scene

Décary‐Hétu¹

2014

Policy & Internet

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Governments and private firms have sought to regulate online piracy through legislation, police enforcement, and lawsuits. This article evaluates the effectiveness of large-scale police operations that targeted the warez scene, the community of hackers responsible for much of the copyrighted content illegally distributed online. Using interrupted time series, we find no significant direct or indirect impact of large-scale police operations on the warez scene. We explain the lack of direct impact by the number of arrests made during the police operations. We explain the indirect impact of police operations by the high turnover of warez groups, the vacuum created by the removal of large, established warez groups, the online nature of the warez scene, and the constrains in deterrence power online.KEY WORDS: police operations, impact of police operations, warez, interrupted time series, deterrence, intellectual property fraud

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Coming Attractions: Opportunities and Challenges in Thwarting Global Movie Piracy

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