Global Online Piracy Study

Abstract

The survey deals with the acquisition and consumption of music, films, series, books and games through the various legal and illegal channels that exist nowadays. The illegal channels studied are downloading and streaming from illegal sources (including via dedicated technical devices), and streamripping. The study was made possible by financial support from Google and builds on previous studies by IViR and Ecorys for the Dutch Government and the European Commission. In the latter, a comparable survey was used in six European countries, as a result of which time trends can be studied and there is the unique opportunity to follow a few thousand respondents over time. For the countries outside Europe, such a comparison over time is not possible. The study aims (i) to provide factual information about the state of authorised and unauthorised acquisition and consumption of content; (ii) to assess the underlying motives and mechanisms and the link with enforcement measures and legal supply; (iii) to assess the effect of online piracy on consumption from legal sources. Legal analysis Comparative legal research was performed on the basis of questionnaires on the legal status of online copyright infringement and enforcement, completed by legal experts in the 13 countries. It was found that, despite some legal uncertainty, the majority of acts studied are qualified as direct copyright infringement by users or give rise to liability for intermediaries. Moreover, ISPs are often subject to injunctions and duties of care even when they benefit from safe harbours. On the whole, copyright holders have a vast arsenal of legal

Use of Illegally Distributed Books in Lithuania

“…Daugiausia tiriama nelegaliai platinamos skaitmeninės muzikos (LaRose & Kim, 2007;Lysonski & Durvasula, 2008), filmų (Bai & Waldfogel, 2012;Chellappa & Shivendu, 2003;Jacobs, Heuvelman, Tan, & Peters, 2012), programinės įrangos (Cronan & Al-Rafee, 2008;Mishra, Akman, & Yazici, 2006;Proserpio, Salvemini, & Ghiringhelli, 2005) naudojimas. Daugeliu atvejų tam naudojami statistiniai duomenys ir tiriamas nelegaliai platinamo turinio vartotojų elgesys (Cronan & Al-Rafee, 2008;Jacobs et al, 2012;LaRose & Kim, 2007;Phau, Teah, & Lwin, 2014;Taylor, 2012;Taylor, Ishida, & Wallace, 2009). Kai kurie tyrimai koncentruojasi į lyčių elgesio skirtumus (Bouhnik & Mor, 2014;Morris, Johnson, & Higgins, 2009) ar piratų bendruomenių narių elgseną (Diamant-Cohen & Golan, 2017).…”

“…Daugelis nelegaliai platinamų skaitmeninių knygų naudojimo tyrimų atlikta didelių šalių rinkose: JAV (Lysonski & Durvasula, 2008), Kinijos (Bai & Waldfogel, 2012), Ispanijos (Camarero et al, 2014), Australijos (Phau et al, 2014), Pietų Korėjos (Lee, Fenoff, & Paek, 2019;Yoon, 2011), Jungtinės Karalystės (Brunton-Smith & McCarthy, 2016, Vokietijos (Jonas & Sirkeci, 2018). O tyrimų, kurie analizuotų nelegaliai platinamų skaitmeninių knygų naudojimą mažų kalbų rinkose, trūksta.…”

“…Tyrimai, kurie naudoja pagrįsto veikimo teoriją, siekia įvertinti galimą vartotojų elgesį atsižvelgiant į jų elgesio normas (Al-Jabri & Abdul-Gader, 1997;Aleassa, Pearson, & McClurg, 2010). Naudojantys planuoto elgesio teoriją tiria, kaip esamos elgesio normos veikia vartotojų elgseną ir jų ketinimus veikti (Casidy, Phau, & Lwin, 2016;Cronan & Al-Rafee, 2008;Dionísio et al, 2013;Phau et al, 2014). Technologijų priėmimo modelis naudojamas įvertinti.…”

Robust Light Field Watermarking by 4D Wavelet Transform

“…Although the development of the internet architecture facilitates data exchange, it may also lead to a higher risk of copyright infringement. This threat has attracted a lot of attention to copyright protection [1], [2]. In [2] Poort et al reported that more than 60% of audio-visual books, music and other digital content have been acquired illegally.…”

Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia

“…There are many possible explanations for why online book piracy is rarely in the headlines: e-book markets and audiences are still relatively small compared to print; electronic reading device penetration is much lower than mp3 players and the like; and print is probably still a preferred format for many. Yet, while e-book piracy is definitely present, its volume and economic value is perceived as low, especially compared to the losses suffered by the music and audiovisual sectors [ 31 ]. E-book black markets failed to develop their own Napster service, and book piracy sites have remained local, fragmented and marginal.…”