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Piracy Focus: Music To CD-ROM - No Problem
News Is the music industry really hurt by piracy? Jollyon Benn of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said he was not surprised at the revelation, adding "at least one in three CDs (audio) are a result of either bootleg, copyright theft or some...
[June 16, 1998, 16:40]
Piracy Blamed For Drop In Music Sales
News At a press conference in London, Jay Berman, chief executive of the IFPI, said that a "a massive increase" in CD piracy -- both by organised criminals and individuals -- had helped to cause the decline in CD sales.
[April 16, 2002, 16:27]
New Technology To Help Squelch Music Piracy
News A group of technology companies is creating a set of industry standards that could help put digital piracy protections directly into disk drives as soon as this summer. Moving to the hardware level would be a step in the direction of creating a...
[December 28, 2000, 11:16]
Group Forms To Fight Digital Music Piracy
News Digital music software maker Liquid Audio Inc.will today announce a new organisation formed to fight music piracy, the Genuine Music Coalition, said officials. The coalition will push music that has been authenticated with a digital signature and...
[January 25, 1999, 15:19]
Tory Leader Compares Music Piracy With Child Abuse
Blog They have already established the Internet Watch Foundation to monitor child abuse and incitement to racial hatred on the internet.They should be doing the same when it comes to digital piracy. Tory leader David Cameron has delivered a speech to...
[July 6, 2007, 18:30]
'Unprecedented' Music Piracy Case Hits Courts
News The case first came to the court system's attention on 17 October 2003, when the music industry's copyright police, Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), who suspected Cooper of music copyright infringement, raided his premises under Anton...
[October 25, 2004, 12:15]
Anti-piracy Feud Bodes Ill For Web Music
News That court ruling also helped embolden consumer electronics companies participating in the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), a cross-industry group formed in late 1998 to create a universal way of adding anti-piracy features to digital...
[November 26, 2001, 14:54]
Music Piracy Still Set To Grow
Talkback Also I would put most of the down turn in music sales to the quality of the dhit they are selling nowadays! Unfortunatly the music and film industries have proved that the saying paying peanuts get monkeys doesn't cover it all.pay millions and you...
[September 22, 2003, 16:51]
Music Industry Sues Students Over Piracy
News See the Digital Rights News Section for the latest on copy protection, piracy, DVD recording and your rights online. The recording industry has stepped up its campaign against campus music swapping, filing suit against four university students who...
[April 4, 2003, 8:01]
Firms Warned On Employee Music Piracy
News As a result, analyst firm Gartner is warning companies to implement and enforce stricter Internet usage policies to avoid being sued for the actions of employees who download pirated music content in the office.
[July 4, 2003, 15:13]
Intel And Panasonic Step Up Fight Against Music Piracy
News US technology firm Intel and US electronics giant Panasonic announced plans to combat music piracy Tuesday. The SMDI was created by over 150 music and technology industry companies in order to provide solutions to digital music piracy.
[August 9, 2000, 9:28]
Music Industry Sounds Off On CD Burning
News CD burning contributed to a surge in music piracy across the globe in 2001, with sales of pirated discs jumping an estimated 50 percent from the previous year, according to an industry report released Tuesday.
[June 12, 2002, 12:22]
Sharman Offices Raided By Piracy Investigators
News Music Industry Piracy Investigations this morning raided the offices of P2P companies Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment, along with the homes of key executives and several ISPs. This is a signal that Internet music piracy is...
[February 6, 2004, 8:35]
RIAA Sues MP3 Site Napster
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a suit against MP3 music site Napster, accusing it of operating as a haven of online piracy. It is charging the site with copyright infringement and alleges that it has created a base...
[December 8, 1999, 11:37]
Evidence Of Piracy Allegedly Destroyed
News The music industry is urgently seeking a court hearing after being advised by lawyers for Australian universities involved in legal action over alleged online music piracy that evidence subject to a court order has been destroyed, a piracy...
[July 25, 2003, 9:57]
Ring-tone Piracy Latest Trend In Asia
News The boom in the mobile phone download industry in Asia has produced extensive music piracy, and copyright owners are fighting a hard battle to claim royalties, reported wire agency AFP. Ring-tone piracy is deemed a civil liability in Singapore...
[August 28, 2003, 10:35]
Entertainment Execs: Learning To Live With Piracy
News And in San Francisco, the music industry is suing Napster, accusing the company of facilitating wholesale music piracy. An upsurge in Internet piracy is forcing the entertainment industry to grapple with an uncertain future, one where copyright...
[August 3, 2000, 13:49]
Secure Music, Off-key Standards?
News The first meeting of the SDMI -- an organisation charged with creating a digital music format immune to piracy -- set a fast pace for the development of a specification for portable players, said SDMI Executive Director Leonardo Chiariglione in an...
[March 10, 1999, 9:31]
UK Buyers Fume Over Copy-protected CD
News Complaints about anti-copying technology have forced a record label to issue CD replacements for angry consumers--another setback for the music industry's stuttering campaign against record piracy. While still a test, the release is one sign that...
[November 20, 2001, 9:18]
Filtering Kazaa 'impossible' - Sharman
News When Music Industry Piracy Investigations -- the music industry's anti-piracy unit -- obtained several legal orders last week allowing them to search premises for evidence associated with alleged copyright-infringing activities, its manager...
[February 9, 2004, 7:35]
