Gospel Music Industry Analysis
Would You Believe That Piracy Statistics Are Normally Bogus, Fiction and Unsubstantiated?
Many years have gone by while the U.S. Government (GAO) and private industry have researched information on how entertainment and software industry piracy statistics are very reliable — at least in terms of being constantly and notoriously incorrect on an yearly basis. Each year companies, especially the Business Software Alliance (BSA, like to throw out marginally-coherent information “proving” the supposedly-huge effect piracy has on the market, national security or employment. The claims are swiftly debunked as rubbish — yet the same claims come back year after year, and often get cited by U.S. people in politics as gospel.
There is a new study by the GAO (Government Accounting Office) on the side effects of piracy (covering most sectors, even toys and games, apparel, car or truck parts, and medicine). The GAO’s analysis unsurprisingly found that U.S. government and industry claims that piracy damages the economic system to the tune of billions of dollars “cannot be substantiated due to the absence of underlying studies.” The full GAO document is worth a read, and not only argues that claims of fiscal impact have not been founded on substantive science — but that file sharing can truly have a constructive impact on sales:
“Some experts we interviewed and literature we reviewed identified potential positive economic effects of counterfeiting and piracy,” The GAO wrote. “Some consumers may knowingly purchase a counterfeit or pirated product because it is less expensive than the genuine good or because the genuine good is unavailable, and they may experience positive effects from such purchases. Consumers may use pirated goods to ‘sample’ music, movies, software, or electronic games before purchasing legitimate copies,” the GAO continued. “This may lead to increased sales of legitimate goods.”
Investigation after investigation have reinforced the conclusion that file sharers acquire more media — though the concept never resonates the same way as claims of economic armageddon brought on by file sharing. While the GAO’s report does without doubt emphasize some of the bad impacts of counterfeiting, the GAO goes on to state that any overarching data of piracy’s affect on the larger economy may not even be possible. The GAO was advised to study piracy’s impact as part of the Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (PRO-IP Act) — which provided plenty of giveaways to the entertainment industry. ProIP was ironically pushed through using unreliable studies to make a case for its creation. Of course we’ll soon be drowning in new dubious data “proving” the GAO drastically wrong — and around and around we go.
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