[Infowarrior] - Study: Dutch Piracy Rates In Free Fall Due Mostly To The Availability Of Legal Alternatives

[Richard Forno]

Study: Dutch Piracy Rates In Free Fall Due Mostly To The Availability Of Legal Alternatives

The claim that the best way to combat content piracy is to offer good legal alternatives and make them widely available isn't exactly breaking new ground. Case studies made out of several nations' piracy rates, such as in Australia and Norway, demonstrate the severe impact creating good digital marketplace alternatives to piracy can have. Techdirt's think tank arm, the Copia Institute, produced the definitive report highlighting this in multiple countries nearly two years ago.

And, yet, the copyright industries and their mouthpiece organizations typically choose to beat the punishment drum instead, going the route of litigation against pirates that ultimately ends up being a PR nightmare, or instead going the route of wholesale censorship on the internet that is equal parts ineffective and alarming to those of us that think such censorship ought to have a high bar to hurdle in order to be implemented. It's with that in mind that any new example that simply offering legal alternatives is a better route is useful to highlight.

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170706/09383837730/study-dutch-piracy-rates-free-fall-due-mostly-to-availability-legal-alternatives.shtml