UK MP: Digital Economy Act Won’t Be Fixed Until 2013
Eric Joyce, Labor MP for Falkirk, says that many arguments used to pass the legislation were "nonsense," and that it'll only be "through experience gained through the application of ...
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IFPI: 31% Decline in Global Music Sales
Says sharp decline in physical sales hasn't been offset by meager rise in digital sales, and says there is "growing worldwide momentum" for govt's to get involved to stop P2P. ...
BPI Blames P2P for Sales Decline, Ignores Streaming, Singles Growth
Although the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has repeatedly claimed a rise in total music industry revenues over the last several years, says that rising digital music sales aren't making up ...
BPI Study: 58% of Illegal Downloaders Use Google to Find Free Music
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has released a new report outlining the current state of legal and digital music in the UK, and its findings detail the enormous obstacles it ...
Open Rights Group to BPI: Is an IP Address “Conclusive Evidence?”
Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group (ORG), a UK digital rights advocacy group, has asked Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), to clarify ...
BPI: UK Music Revenues Up 2.3%, But P2P Still a Problem
British Phonographic Industry (BPI) lauds record labels for "innovating in the digital world and developing new revenue streams," boasting increased overall revenues, but insists that illegal file-sharing is still a ...
IFPI Demands Google Remove Pirate Bay Links
Sends the search engine giant a DMCA complaint asking that it quit "providing search results directly linking to the website for the illegal file-sharing service" that is the ...
“3-Strikes” Recall? UK Music Sales Up 1.4% in 2009
British Phonographic Industry says a strong fourth quarter and increased digital income streams offset declining physical sales, contradicting claims that the music industry is in a freefall that required immediate ...
BPI Plans to Sue UK File-Sharers
Chief executive Geoff Taylor says that until ISP-level technical measures take effect a year from now as part of the Digital Economy Act it will have to "bring lawsuits at ...
Music Industry Cheers UK “3-Strikes,” Hopes it Goes Global
RIAA, IFPI, and the BPI line up to praise passage of the Digital Economy Bill, which includes Internet disconnection, website filtering, and a virtual ban on public access WI-Fi, hoping ...
UK Prosecutors Drop Case Against OiNK Uploader
Matthew Wyatt, then 17, of Stamford, Lincolnshire had been accused of illegally uploading 3 albums and a track single to the venerated BitTorrent tracker site.
It was back on ...
UK ISP Criticizes Mass P2P Lawsuits
O2 says better approach would be for copyright holders to devise a new business model where customers get what they want, when and where they want it, for a "fair ...
UK MPs to Allow Blocked Sites to Appeal
Liberal Democrats prepare to amend their proposed amendment to the Digital Economy Bill, but disclosure that the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) wrote the original draft has led to calls for ...
UK STUDY: ISPs Could Earn $304m w/Bundled Music Services
British Phonographic Industry-funded study finds that bundled digital music services could earn ISPs £203 million ($303.9m USD) by 2013.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is once again trying to lure in ...
UK STUDY: 40% Unable to Name Legal Online Music Service
Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35 exist and touts own study ...
UK Music Industry Criticizes Law Firm’s Mass P2P Lawsuits
Says legal action is not the best first contact with alleged illegal file-sharers, and that it should be "reserved for the most persistent or serious offenders."
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BPI Rebuts ISP Anti-Piracy Estimates
British Phonographic Industry ( BPI ) claims ISPs are exaggerating the financial hardship they will have to bear in order to enforce proposed "three-strikes" legislation.
Late last month I reported ...
OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty!
Takes only 90 minutes for a UK jury in a unanimous decision to negate more than 4 years worth of work by the music industry and the prosecution, clearing ...
7 Million UK File-Sharers Myth Debunked
Govt-touted study turns 136 admitted file-sharers from sample of 1,176 households into the the much touted 7 million, but actual total could be as low as 3.9 million, and it ...
BPI Exec – Industry Shouldn’t Have Fought Napster
It may have taken 10 years for one executive to come up with this revelation, but the head of the British Phonographic Industry, or BPI, has recently admitted that the ...
