H5N1 study created for the European Union Commission has been unable to honor a link betwixt piracy in addition to sales of copyrighted content, including video games. The report, ‘Estimating displacement rates of copyrighted textile inwards the EU’, looks at literature, games, music in addition to films using information from 2014.
At a gruelling 307 pages, the study details copyright practices inwards diverse European Union countries, displacement rates in addition to the number of cost inwards how probable it is for something to locomote pirated. Thankfully, its findings accept been summarised at the start.
In 2014, the study finds, 51% of adults in addition to 72% of minors accept illegally downloaded or streamed copy. The statistics used were from the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Poland in addition to Sweden, amongst Poland in addition to Kingdom of Spain having higher piracy rates than the other 4 countries. Despite these numbers, the study was unable to honor “robust” testify that there’s a link betwixt sales in addition to piracy, amongst a caveat.
“That does non necessarily hateful that piracy has no number simply exclusively that the statistical analysis does non essay amongst sufficient reliability that at that topographic point is an effect,” reads the report. There is 1 exception, however, in addition to that’s amongst “recent exceed films”, which had a displacement charge per unit of measurement of 40%.
Also analysed was consumers’ “willingness to pay” for pirated materials inwards an displace to honor out if cost was a factor. It concludes that a decrease inwards cost would non touching on piracy rates for books, music in addition to games. Consumers are either willing to pay, or they aren’t.
If you’ve got a dull weekend ahead of you, why non spice it upwards past times reading the entirety of this really dry out report?
Cheers, PCGamesN.
Thanks PC GAMER
At a gruelling 307 pages, the study details copyright practices inwards diverse European Union countries, displacement rates in addition to the number of cost inwards how probable it is for something to locomote pirated. Thankfully, its findings accept been summarised at the start.
In 2014, the study finds, 51% of adults in addition to 72% of minors accept illegally downloaded or streamed copy. The statistics used were from the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Poland in addition to Sweden, amongst Poland in addition to Kingdom of Spain having higher piracy rates than the other 4 countries. Despite these numbers, the study was unable to honor “robust” testify that there’s a link betwixt sales in addition to piracy, amongst a caveat.
“That does non necessarily hateful that piracy has no number simply exclusively that the statistical analysis does non essay amongst sufficient reliability that at that topographic point is an effect,” reads the report. There is 1 exception, however, in addition to that’s amongst “recent exceed films”, which had a displacement charge per unit of measurement of 40%.
Also analysed was consumers’ “willingness to pay” for pirated materials inwards an displace to honor out if cost was a factor. It concludes that a decrease inwards cost would non touching on piracy rates for books, music in addition to games. Consumers are either willing to pay, or they aren’t.
If you’ve got a dull weekend ahead of you, why non spice it upwards past times reading the entirety of this really dry out report?
Cheers, PCGamesN.
Thanks PC GAMER