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by Silhouette
5191 days ago
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In UK digital sales grew by 27% in 2011 alone, and they have no similar laws. Actually, we do, primarily under the controversial Digital Economy Act that was pushed through just before the last general election. The laws aren't widely applied yet in the way that they apparently have been in France, but there has been some fairly high profile threatening going on all the same. In other words, while I'm certainly not equating the situation in the two countries and the seriousness or otherwise of the threat to pirates right now, it's probably not fair to totally discount the effect of anti-piracy rules in the UK either. |
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Buy hey, let's take my country (Sweden) as an example then. Digital sales went up a whopping 65% in 2011[0], and I can promise you that although we've have had some digital rights laws (like IPRED) no pirates here are actually afraid of getting caught, and the Pirate Party are still going strong. Actually, the only country with a sizable reduction in piracy (France) seem to be the one with the least increase in digital sales.
My guess is that the large increase in digital sales in Sweden is mainly due to the popularity of Spotify.
[0] http://www.ifpi.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/GLF-f%C3%B6rs%C3%A4... (in swedish)