British Campaign to Target Music Piracy

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

LONDON - More than 7 million people in Britain now download music from illegal Web sites, causing a drop in music sales in stores, leaders of Britain's record industry said Thursday as they launched a campaign to curb music piracy.

The British Phonographic Institute, or BPI, said warnings would be posted on the Internet threatening court action against the pirates.

Research commissioned by the institute has shown that some 8 million people now download music from the Internet and 7.4 million — or 92 percent — admit doing so illegally.

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[jipper]

" illegal Web sites"

wuh illegal websites...!

[Malicious Intent]

I wont start to panic yet.

They only say "threatening". They can do that until they are blue in the face.

They said they wouldn't take any action until there are legal alternatives. Last I heard there arn't any. I trust they wont count mycokemusic.com. With Napster saying they wont open here until the BPI allow Napster users to actually listen to the music they download, and the BPI saying that consumers need to do no such thing, hopefully there wont be alternatives for a while.

[Bombardier]

More than 7 million people in Britain now download music from illegal Web sites

I just love how the news media gets file-sharing terminology wrong. Granted, there are websites that offer mp3s.

I think they mean to say "Peer to Peer" file sharing applications. That's what the RIAA and other record industries seem to be targeting these days.

There is a big difference between a website and a P2P file-sharing network.