{"id":1768,"date":"2012-06-13T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/13\/piracy-cost-german-music-industry-660-million-in-lost-revenue-last-year-study\/"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:49:08","slug":"piracy-cost-german-music-industry-660-million-in-lost-revenue-last-year-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/06\/13\/piracy-cost-german-music-industry-660-million-in-lost-revenue-last-year-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Piracy cost German music industry $660 million in lost revenue last year – study"},"content":{"rendered":"


Piracy cost the German music industry $660 million (524 million euros) in lost revenue last year, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

Backed by the Berlin-Brandenburg Medienboard and the German video game association G.A.M.E, the study encompassed a number of German media industries and was carried out by Berlin-based House of Research. It looked at academic papers dealing with the illegal download or streaming of copyright-protected works and the possible impact on sales.
House of Research’s figures estimate that users in Germany illegally streamed or downloaded 185 million films last year and that damage as a result of piracy accounted for around 6% of overall revenues for the year costing the industry nearly $200 million.<\/p>\n

Medienboard managing director Elmar Giglinger said: “One can argue about the numbers but that (piracy) damages the industry is undeniable.<\/p>\n

“We now have to find reasonable solutions. As has so often been the case, hardliner positions on both sides has prevented a constructive debate.”<\/p>\n

The project also looked at several studies that found that online piracy had a slight positive impact on music and film sales, but the House of Research concluded that, while a small number of users use illegal downloads to sample works they later acquire legally, the overall impact of online piracy is negative.<\/p>\n

The impact of piracy on the games industry was also included but researchers said there were not a sufficient number of academic surveys available to give an accurate estimate of the financial damage to video game sales caused by online piracy. <\/p>\n

Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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