Joe Karaganis: Piracy Needs Better Policy

In a talk at the O’Reilly Media Tools of Change for Publishing conference in New York, Joe Karaganis of the American Assembly said that high prices for content and less accessibility lead to piracy.

Pointing out that lawyers are more expensive than cops, he spoke about how the strategy to combat piracy has often been focused on raids which are cheap and the occasional lawsuit which is done for show.

Urging the industry to create a better plan, he revealed research that illustrated the discrepancies between consumers filing sharing behavior and their perceptions about downloading with the laws around it.

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