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Reference
Title: | O Consumo de Produtos Piratas no Brasil 2007 |
Author: | [IPSOS] |
Source: | Federação do Comércio do Estado do Rio de Janeiro |
Year: | 2007 |
Details
Subject/Type: | Counterfeiting, Piracy |
Focus: | Aircraft and Auto Parts, Apparel and Shoes, Consumer Electronics / Electronic Equipment, Fashion Accessories, Film, Music, Personal Care Products, Software, Tobacco Products, Toys, Watches |
Country/Territory: | Brazil |
Objective: | To find out who consumes counterfeit products, why they are consumed, and whether consumers are aware of the consequences of counterfeit goods consumption. |
Sample: | 1.000 households in 70 cities and 9 metropolitan regions |
Methodology: | Survey |
Main Findings
In 2007, 42% of consumers bought at least one pirated product (unchanged from 2006). 97% indicated that price is the decisive factor when buying counterfeits. The most-often consumed counterfeit goods were: CDs (with 86% of counterfeit buyers having purchased pirated CDs), followed by DVDs (53%), glasses (10%), toys (9%), clothes (8%), shoes (8%), pens (6%), and perfumes (6%).
Counterfeit buyers and non-counterfeit buyers reported that they were most likely to reject fakes of the following products: electronic devices (50%), software (35%), DVDs (34%), perfumes (34%), clothes (34%), shoes (32%), CDs (31%), watches (30%), glasses (30%), and car parts (30%).
67% of consumers affirmed that the consumption of pirated goods can have negative consequences: 84% believed that counterfeits hurt the manufacturers/artists; 81% were aware of tax evasion related to counterfeits; 72% associated counterfeiting with organised crime; 65% affirmed that counterfeiting causes unemployment. Overall, 52% were satisfied with the pirated products acquired.
Those not buying fakes gave the following reasons for not doing so: “low quality” (48%), “lack of warranty” (16%), “negative effect on genuine vendors” (10%), “fear that money saved with counterfeit not outweighing possible damage” (6%), and “fear of prosecution for buying an illegal product” (3%).
[Date Added: Jan 20, 2009 ]