This is a series of lectures I gave at Birkbeck College - clearly the notes are not extensive but if anyone would like to chat them through then feel free to talk directly to me.

1. PIRACY DISRUPTION

3. THEFT, SAMPLING OR REMIX?

4. IS IT THEFT OR CULTURE?

5. FOR AND AGAINST

6. TOP TORRENTED SHOWS 2012 (US)
Top of the heap is Game of Thrones with 4.28M "Not all of the people who pirate do it because it's
downloads and here’s the full Top 10 for 2012. free - availability is also a big factor," Ernesto Van
Der Sar told the BBC.
1. Game of Thrones
2. Dexter "Most of the titles in the top 10 list are behind
3. The Big Bang Theory paywalls and are not distributed very widely. If
4. How I Met Your Mother TV companies offered them online to a broader
5. Breaking Bad audience, piracy would be lower than it is now.
6. The Walking Dead
7. Homeland "But I'm not sure that would be best for their
8. House revenues as they rely on expensive subscriptions
9. Fringe which they still sell a lot of. If they allowed people
10. Revolution to download individual episodes from Netflix, for
example, they might not make as much money."

7. PIRACY LEVELLING OUT
Maybe music executives can finally stop singing the blues. Music piracy is on
the decline, analysts say, while an industry group said digital music sales in
2012 drove global music industry revenues up for the first time since 1999.
It’s not a very big gain for the music industry — just 0.3 percent to $16.5
billion — but even that small uptick may be a sign that digital music has
finally put the industry on the path to recovery. Digital music and services,
the report said, grew 9 percent in the past year. That comprises digital
downloads, as well as newer subscription services such as Spotify and ad-
supported services including Pandora.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/music-piracy-on-the-decline-as-digital-music-sales-
grow/2013/02/26/5ca43fe2-804b-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html

9. HOW MUCH DOES AN ARTIST MAKE FROM A SINGLE
STREAM OF A SONG ON ITUNES MATCH AND SPOTIFY?