Abstract
According to the RIAA the media industry is suffering heavy losses due to increased copying and file sharing in the last 10 years. Sanity and reason shows there must be something true with that argument. But are the numbers the media companies are providing correct? What can we learn from history?
The following links provide an uncategorized and unsorted mixture of links (in multiple languages) dealing with the topic of copying and file sharing. It is in no way complete and perfect, but is probably usable as a lateral cut thru that topic.
We will update this section frequently. Comments are highly appreciated.
Links
| Date | Headling | Editor/Media | Link |
| 1977 | Sind Leer-Cassetten der Tod der Schallplatte? (~ “Will blank tapes mark the end of vinyl?”) | Bravo | Link |
| 1977 | “Klang-Supermarkt zum Nulltarif” (~”Sound supermarket for free”) | Spiegel | Link |
| Late 1980s | “Anti-DAT lobbying” | Wikipedia | Link |
| 1992 | “Audio Home Recording Act” | Wikipedia | Link |
| 2003 | “Studie: Illegale Kopien sind ein internes Problem der Filmindustrie” (~”Study: Illegal Copies Are Internal Problem Of The Filmindustry”) | Heise.de | Link |
| 2006 | “Studios See Big Rise In Estimates of Losses To Movie Piracy” | Wall Street Journal | Link |
| 2006 | “Raubkopie-Studie: Hollywood verliert 6 Milliarden Dollar” (~”Illegal Copy Study: Hollywood Loses 6 Billion US$”) | Golem.de | Link |
| 2009 | “COMMENTS OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION IN RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN WORKSHOP ON THE ROLE OF CONTENT IN THE BROADBAND ECOSYSTEM” | Paramount Pictures | Link |
| 2009 | “Hollywood-Studio will Suchmaschinen kontrollieren” (~”Hollywood Studio Aiming At Control Of Internet Search Engines”) | Golem.de | Link |
| 2009 | “How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers” | PCPro.co.uk | Link |
| 2009 | “Blu-ray kann weltweiten DVD-Verkaufsrückgang nicht auffangen” (~”Worldwide Blu-Ray Sales Don’t Compensate Reduced DVD Sales”) | Golem.de | Link |
| 2009 | “Blu-ray Disc zieht an – DVD-Verkäufe rückläufig” (~”Blu-Ray Sales Increasing – DVD Sales Decreasing”) | Big Screen | Link |
| 2009 | “Artists’ lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates”) | Ars Technica | Link |
| 2009 | “Sind Labels die wahren Piraten? Musiker verklagen kanadische Musikindustrie” (~”Are Labels The Real Pirates? Musicians Sue Canadian Musicindustry”) | Tom’s Hardware | Link |
| 2010 | “Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods” | U.S. Government Accountability Office |
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| 2010 | “Verluste durch Filesharing sind stark übertrieben” (~”Losses From File Sharing Massively Exaggerated”) | Big Screen | Link |
| 2010 | “Seagate to preload hard drives with movies” | Financial Times | Link |