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INTERNATIONAL ANTI-PIRACY CAUCUS UNVEILS 2006  PIRACY WATCH LIST

 Washington, DC: At a press conference today the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, which is chaired by Senators Gordon Smith (R-OR), and Joe Biden (D-DE) and Congressmen Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), unveiled the “2006 International Piracy Watch List”.  In an effort to combat international copyright piracy by calling attention to countries where piracy has reached alarming levels the Caucus announced they will closely monitor the serious problems of copyright piracy in the following six countries: China, Russia, Mexico, Canada, India and Malaysia.

The advent of digital technology holds the promise of a golden age for movies, music, video games and other forms of entertainment.  More new devices for watching, listening to, recording, sharing and saving music and movies have emerged in the last decade than in the previous 100 years.  And these technologies are a key to American economic growth:  indeed, the combined copyright industries – movies, home video and television programming, music, books, video games and software – generate more revenues than any other single manufacturing sector, including automobiles and auto parts, aircraft and agriculture.  They are responsible for more than five percent of the nation’s GDP.  The film industry alone has a surplus balance of trade with every country in the world. 

Disturbingly, however, an explosion in piracy and a diminution in copyright protection have accompanied these exciting new advances in entertainment technology.  Organized crime has become heavily involved in foreign DVD and CD piracy.  Criminals are using the same formidable distribution network and resources that were developed for drug trafficking and arms smuggling.  The result, in these and other countries, is a virtual evisceration of the legitimate market for American entertainment. Read more at house.gov

 


 



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