uk-publishers-association-backs-police-ip-crackdown-but-does-it-make-sense

The article gives a good critique, but maybe misses the point that all 
policing of piracy helps keep it to a low level; and the effect of 
reducing some is to highlight what remains.


http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-49548
http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-publishers-association-backs-police-ip-crackdown-but-does-it-make-sense/


"And is there even much of a problem? The Ofcom/Kantar Media Online 
Copyright Infringement Tracker 
<http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/telecoms-research/copyright-infringement-trackerw3/> 
for March-May 2013, which I referenced earlier, cites only 8 percent of 
its poll downloading ebooks illegally, which, according to the report, 
means that ebooks "had the lowest estimated illegal behaviour across the 
content types." Now, I'm aware that there are some question 
<http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-publishers-association-backs-police-ip-crackdown-but-does-it-make-sense/#> 
marks, raised by Nate Hoffelder and others, about the Tracker's figures. 
And I do suspect that this 8 percent is a considerable underestimate. 
All the same, this is data from another UK regulator. I also reckon that 
illegal ebook use in the UK or anywhere else is not happening in any way 
that the likes of PIPCU could usefully tackle."