[pp.int.general] Piracy and poor countries: Big Content wants to have its cake and eat it too

[Pirat@LennStar.de]

For anyone who does not know BoingBoing:

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/03/piracy-and-poor-coun.html

"groundbreaking independent research presented in "Media Piracy in
Emerging Economies," a 400+ page report that took 35 researchers three
years to compile. The project's lead, Joe Karganis, is giving a free
talk tomorrow in London: "

"But by asking taxpayers - here in the rich world and also in the poor
world - to foot the bill for trade sanctions, enforcement, new civil and
criminal penalties, even global treaties like ACTA, the entertainment
industry can still get a profit out of the poorest people in the world
by externalising the costs and reaping whatever sliver of legit market
they can drag out of the poor world by brute force. "

LennStar