he big forces driving media piracy in developing countries are real and powerful and will not be changed, no matter how many western politicians get on their moral high horses and insist that countries like India and China build a “culture of intellectual property.” But the irony is that if governments and corporations really wanted to build such a culture, then they would encourage companies to set their prices low enough that the populations of those countries could actually afford to buy music, movies, and software at the full legal retail price. It turns out that domestic companies are quite good at distributing media at low prices, and can build profitable businesses by doing that. But foreign companies have different incentives in the short term, and don’t do that.
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English-language pulp fiction translates to success in India - 0 views
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I find it interesting that while some of us in the US are lamenting the decline of the book, in other places in the world books and book production are actually enjoying a surge....
Outsourcing local journalism - 0 views
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Maureen Dowd NYT Op-Ed piece on the outsourcing of local newspaper journalism to India. As if newspaper employees needed any more bad news.
The best report ever on media piracy | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com - 1 views
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Data-grounded research on the costs of media piracy developing economies.
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