Retailers battle file-sharing blues as broadband expands
13-Apr-2011 | The Middle East
Dubai will download… and share with impunity. So much so, "sharing" has become the most reviled word in the lexicon for the region’s music, movie and software businesses. And they have just cause.
File sharing of downloaded movies has supplanted Chinese bag ladies as the biggest threat to DVD sales here. Much the same havoc is being wreaked in music CD sales as well by broadband.
Lawyers Dr Michael Krämer
This article features Dr. Michael Krämer providing expert opinion on the legal aspects of intellectual property piracy and appeared in the 9 April 2011 edition of Gulf News and is reproduced with the kind permission of the editors.
