The price of music piracy in Russia
FINAM held a conference on the problems of pirated music distribution in Russia on its website, and it would be a shame not to quote a few statements made there. Briefly, entertaining and in essence.
“We believe that we lose about 10% of the amount of sales of physical media. But in terms of money, I, unfortunately, cannot express it. I think that the domestic industry as a whole loses at least $ 30 million, ”said Sergey Bobza from the Style Records company. This company, although it cannot boast of huge sales volumes or hit releases, is included in one holding company with a network of music stores “Nastroenie”. Lawyer Andrei Knyazev, who also thinks about millions of dollars in losses, confirms his words vehemently and immediately expresses the opinion that economic measures need to deal with this, and not try to catch all violators by the hand.
Andrei also warned copyright holders of the slippery moments of the draft of the new version of the Civil Code: if it is adopted in its current form, media companies will have more opportunities to take away all rights to musical works from the musician and will certainly take advantage of this.
Participants of the conference saw ways to combat piracy in focusing on the development of digital music sales at prices comparable to prices on pirate websites (that is, $ 0.15-0.2). It is also important to look for convenient ways of legal distribution of digital music. “It becomes more profitable for providers to close local networks, to host legal music and to share profits from sales with aggregators, rather than to be prosecuted by copyright holders. Right holders have already begun to deliver high-quality content to the market. Legal distributors will gradually reduce the cost of their files. At the same time, piracy services will gradually overlap the channels for receiving money. All this together will allow the development of a new legal market, ”Sonya Sokolova from Soundkey optimistically says. A CD is proposed to leave for the sake of a beautiful, even gift, the design of the cover and additional bonuses, interesting to collectors and music lovers.
“We believe that we lose about 10% of the amount of sales of physical media. But in terms of money, I, unfortunately, cannot express it. I think that the domestic industry as a whole loses at least $ 30 million, ”said Sergey Bobza from the Style Records company. This company, although it cannot boast of huge sales volumes or hit releases, is included in one holding company with a network of music stores “Nastroenie”. Lawyer Andrei Knyazev, who also thinks about millions of dollars in losses, confirms his words vehemently and immediately expresses the opinion that economic measures need to deal with this, and not try to catch all violators by the hand.
Andrei also warned copyright holders of the slippery moments of the draft of the new version of the Civil Code: if it is adopted in its current form, media companies will have more opportunities to take away all rights to musical works from the musician and will certainly take advantage of this.
Participants of the conference saw ways to combat piracy in focusing on the development of digital music sales at prices comparable to prices on pirate websites (that is, $ 0.15-0.2). It is also important to look for convenient ways of legal distribution of digital music. “It becomes more profitable for providers to close local networks, to host legal music and to share profits from sales with aggregators, rather than to be prosecuted by copyright holders. Right holders have already begun to deliver high-quality content to the market. Legal distributors will gradually reduce the cost of their files. At the same time, piracy services will gradually overlap the channels for receiving money. All this together will allow the development of a new legal market, ”Sonya Sokolova from Soundkey optimistically says. A CD is proposed to leave for the sake of a beautiful, even gift, the design of the cover and additional bonuses, interesting to collectors and music lovers.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/16406/
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