There are many reasons people choose to steal content. However, there are clear and compelling benefits to growing a legitimate content industry. That is why we must fight content piracy, writes Frikkie Jonker, director of broadcast cybersecurity and anti-piracy at Irdeto.
Content piracy is acknowledged as having enormously negative social impacts. It is a type of global organised crime that undermines the creative sector. However, what is not often discussed is what drives content piracy. What leads people to steal content?
When it comes to content piracy, Africa has low barriers to entry, and an almost limitless demand for cheap content. There may be a sense that content piracy is a relatively minor crime, compared to crimes such as murder, rape and grand corruption. In reality, though, content piracy isUnfortunately, where there are few consequences, the barriers to using stolen content are so much lower.
In the UK, for example, police recently arrested as many as 2 000 people who were illegally viewing streams of English Premier League football matches. Similar cases are being pursued in Africa. Prosecuting content piracy is not simply a harsh clampdown that spoils everyone’s fun. The war on content piracy has very real benefits – for everyone.
Major productions across Africa – in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and many other countries – sustain thousands of jobs – in production, performance, set and costume design, all the way through to catering, transport and accommodation. The war on piracy is a war to protect these jobs.
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