[x-pubpol] Piracy problems? US copyright industries show terrific health

[Joly MacFie]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/piracy-problems-us-copyright-industries-show-terrific-health.ars

Pity the poor people who work in the US "copyright industries." Battered by
a decade of digital piracy and facing even more of it thanks to cheap
computers, fast Internet, P2P file-sharing, and online file lockers, the US
creative industries teeter on the verge of collapse. You can tell because
the industry:

   - Pays better than most American jobs
   - Has outperformed the US economy through a horrific recession
   - Sells record-setting amounts of product overseas, earning more foreign
   revenue than the entire US food sector or US pharmaceutical companies

Things are going so "badly" that a major new report commissioned by
copyright holders says that these "consistently positive trends solidify
the status of the copyright industries as a key engine of growth for the US
economy as a whole."
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