[p2p-research] [opennetcoalition] Complete statistics on illegal downloads, anybody?

[Michel Bauwens]

no specific answer, but by using my two delicious tags in conjunction,

i.e. http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Filesharing and
http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Statistics

you may perhaps find the answer,

Michel


On 4/19/09, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 15:42:17 PM +0200, Niels Elgaard Larsen wrote:
>
> > Boyle has some numbers for books in "The Public Domain: Enclosing
> > the Commons of the Mind": http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/
>
> Niels,
>
> thanks for these links, they look very interesting. I have to leave
> for a while now, so I haven't read them yet, but surely will. In the
> meantime, here a couple of questions/comments before I forget:
>
> I already know very well that "the vast majority of existing material,
> perhaps as
> much as 95 percent in the case of books, is commercially unavailable."
>
> What I want to know is how big is the intersection between that corpus
> and the corpus of illegal downloads. How many downloads happen because
> people _would_ be willing to pay, but there is no possibility anymore
> to pay somebody to get a particular song, movie, book, etc..? Does
> anybody know, or pretends to know? Does that book or any other source
> contains this kind of information?
>
>
> > Of course _they_ will claim that if you cannot get that special 1032
> > jazz-recording, you will just spend the same money on Britney Spears
> > instead.
>
> Sure, but I didn't ask what "they" (the movie industry) claim. I am
> asking if anybody knows what actually happens. What is the stuff which
> is actually downloaded? 1032 jazz recordings or Britney Spears
> videoclips? How much the second category of downloads is bigger than
> the first? Do we at least have a generic idea?
>
> TIA,
>        Marco
>        http://mfioretti.com
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