Comment by hiisukun
7 years ago
In Australia, we have a 'Productivity Commission' that investigates and produces reports on things impacting the country. One of these was recently produced on Intellectual Property arrangements [1].
While the findings didn't state that piracy wasn't harmful, they certainly did find that current the intellectual property situation (including local laws and international laws and trade) was harmful in some ways.
I'm yet to hear or see any movement resulting from the report, but part of the findings were how hard it is to make informed changes to the current system, because of so many international and complicated legal requirements.
[1] https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/intellectual-prope...
That report also highlighted that piracy is in many cases a service problem - the legal means are slow, awkward, or unreasonably expensive, so people pirate because it's just easier.
"Timely and cost effective access to copyright content is the best way to reduce infringement."