Got A Huge DVD Collection? No Worries, It Won’t get Stolen.
According to The Economist the incidences of thieves stealing CDs and DVDs have dropped dramatically in the last decade. For burglars, the return on investment simply isn’t there like it had been in the past due in most part to the success of online file sharing services and websites.
Computers and peripherals on the other hand are still quite valuable to the criminally minded and only purses and wallets are swiped more often.
As quoted from The Economist:
“These sorts of crimes are regarded even by criminals as the preserve of the desperate,” says James Treadwell, a Leicester University criminologist. Although burglars are for the most part drug-riddled, unskilled and opportunistic, they still quite capable of making economic based calculations. And their criminal actions reveal insights into the state of the media business. Hollywood and the record labels believe they can hold off the threat from technology, both legitimate and illegitimate, and maintain the value of their products. Britain’s burglars disagree.”
