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June 9th, 2005, 09:18 AM
The international recording industry signed up a global children's charity Wednesday to promote its anti-piracy message to parents around the world, suggesting that many adults have no idea what their children are up to on home computers.
The International Federation of Phonographic Industries, or IFPI, will use record stores, supermarkets and schools, libraries and websites to distribute a leaflet aimed at educating parents. The organization's national subsidiary in the United States has been criticized for including children in lawsuits against people illegally downloading music from the Internet.
The pamphlet, "Young People, Music and the Internet - a guide for parents about P2P, file-sharing and downloading," has been created by Childnet International, a charity that deals with issues of child security on the Internet .
"This campaign is perfectly timed, and it is aimed exactly at the right audience," said IFPI chairman John Kennedy. "At a time when music on the Internet, both legal and illegal, is being made available everywhere, parents, now more than ever, need to be armed with knowledge about the opportunities and the pitfalls surrounding online music."
The leaflets will be distributed in 19 countries, including Germany, Italy, Spain, Singapore, the United States and Mexico.
The IFPI, which has been waging educational and legal campaigns against music pirates for the past few years, said that millions of young people are regularly downloading music from legal services.
Many others, however, are using illegal file-sharing networks, such as peer-to-peer networks that give computer users access to music files directly from the computers of other users on the network.
The London-based IFPI based the need for the pamphlet on research carried out by the London School of Economics that found while only one in 10 parents know how to download music, some 45 per cent of the 84 per cent of nine-to 19 year-olds who use the Internet regularly do so.
"Whilst children love the Internet and enjoy sharing music and other entertainment files, we believe that most parents have no idea how file-sharing works or what besides music is carried on the global file-sharing networks," said Childnet Chief Executive Officer Stephen Carrick-Davies.
The international recording industry has blamed the prevalence of illegal music downloading for severely crimping the legitimate profits due to artists and record companies.
The Recording Industry Association of America attracted criticism in 2003 when it included children in a series of lawsuits against illegal music file swappers.
The U.S. House of Representatives last year passed a bill that encourages the FBI to use Internet providers to forward warning letters to subscribers whose accounts are being used for illegally downloading music and movies. That provision is aimed largely at parents who may be unaware of their children's activities.
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The International Federation of Phonographic Industries, or IFPI, will use record stores, supermarkets and schools, libraries and websites to distribute a leaflet aimed at educating parents. The organization's national subsidiary in the United States has been criticized for including children in lawsuits against people illegally downloading music from the Internet.
The pamphlet, "Young People, Music and the Internet - a guide for parents about P2P, file-sharing and downloading," has been created by Childnet International, a charity that deals with issues of child security on the Internet .
"This campaign is perfectly timed, and it is aimed exactly at the right audience," said IFPI chairman John Kennedy. "At a time when music on the Internet, both legal and illegal, is being made available everywhere, parents, now more than ever, need to be armed with knowledge about the opportunities and the pitfalls surrounding online music."
The leaflets will be distributed in 19 countries, including Germany, Italy, Spain, Singapore, the United States and Mexico.
The IFPI, which has been waging educational and legal campaigns against music pirates for the past few years, said that millions of young people are regularly downloading music from legal services.
Many others, however, are using illegal file-sharing networks, such as peer-to-peer networks that give computer users access to music files directly from the computers of other users on the network.
The London-based IFPI based the need for the pamphlet on research carried out by the London School of Economics that found while only one in 10 parents know how to download music, some 45 per cent of the 84 per cent of nine-to 19 year-olds who use the Internet regularly do so.
"Whilst children love the Internet and enjoy sharing music and other entertainment files, we believe that most parents have no idea how file-sharing works or what besides music is carried on the global file-sharing networks," said Childnet Chief Executive Officer Stephen Carrick-Davies.
The international recording industry has blamed the prevalence of illegal music downloading for severely crimping the legitimate profits due to artists and record companies.
The Recording Industry Association of America attracted criticism in 2003 when it included children in a series of lawsuits against illegal music file swappers.
The U.S. House of Representatives last year passed a bill that encourages the FBI to use Internet providers to forward warning letters to subscribers whose accounts are being used for illegally downloading music and movies. That provision is aimed largely at parents who may be unaware of their children's activities.
Read the complete article (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/5466/International+recording+industry+targets+parents+i n+new+anti-piracy+campaign/)