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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the rising-tide-lifts-all-ships dept.

Music piracy is on the increase worldwide, with 40 percent of users are accessing unlicensed music, up from 35 percent last year, the global recorded music industry group IFPI said.

Internet search engines are making piracy easier, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said in a report on Tuesday, calling for government action.

The increase in piracy follows a slump in recent years when policing of the digital music landscape appeared to be clamping down on the practice.

"Copyright infringement is still growing and evolving, with stream ripping the dominant method," said IPPI chief, Frances Moore.

"With the wealth of licensed music available to fans, these types of illegal sites have no justifiable place in the music world," she said, calling for greater regulation of the digital music sector.

If they defeat stream ripping, there's always the analog hole...

[Ed Note - OTOH "The report also revealed the continuing rise in audio streaming. It found that 45 percent of respondents were now listening to music through a licensed audio streaming service—up from 37 percent in 2016." ]


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:18AM (7 children)

    by mhajicek (51) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:18AM (#570448)

    In the old days people would tape song off the radio.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:34AM (1 child)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:34AM (#570454) Journal

    And share them with friends. I mean, how many of us were in our rooms as teens with a stack of tapes, pack of blanks, and those fancy new CD's cranking tunes while the deck was running making mix tapes and bootlegs for our friends? How many of us copied tapes and CD's from friends?

    This Internet piracy is nothing new. Just more visible.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:15AM

      by TheGratefulNet (659) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:15AM (#570497)

      'tape trees' were a thing. someone would tape a show, then 'seed' the show. top levels were people who could turn around the tape copies fast. usually 3 children for 1 parent; parent asks 3 children for their tape lists; the children receive a copy of the seed and the parent gets 3 new shows he didn't have. no money changes hands; its blanks for blanks or 'b+p' (blanks plus postage, if you have nothing to trade and are starting out). children have children, so its a classic tree. the tapes go out via mail and this started in the cassette days then became really big with digital audio (DAT tapes and a whole set of boxes that would strip scms and let you do bit perfect digital copies).

      ah, the memories (lol).

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:18AM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:18AM (#570500) Journal

    While true, you didn't have to be an audiophile to appreciate the difference between radio recordings, and almost anything else. If you wanted a copy of something, you borrowed a buddy's tape or record, and figured out how to wire an output to an input.

    • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:06AM (3 children)

      by Whoever (4524) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:06AM (#570521) Journal

      While true, you didn't have to be an audiophile to appreciate the difference between radio recordings, and almost anything else.

      If you were listening to AM radio or you had a crappy radio, yes. Otherwise, FM radio is actually very good quality.

      • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday September 20 2017, @06:28AM (2 children)

        by mhajicek (51) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @06:28AM (#570542)

        Except for the annoying DJs talking over half the song.

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        • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @09:35AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @09:35AM (#570573)

          Where I lived, they actually announced songs in advance and said "get your tape decks ready!" and then played the entire single.

          • (Score: 1) by toddestan on Friday September 22 2017, @10:41PM

            by toddestan (4982) on Friday September 22 2017, @10:41PM (#571867)

            Those were the good old days, before they cut off both the beginning and end of the song, play an obnoxious bumper between every freaking song, and actually had DJ's.

            As for the format itself, FM is a lot like CD's. The format is capable of pretty high quality, but the radio stations nowadays compress the shit out of what they play, and keep in mind that most music in the last 20 years or so already has the shit compressed out of it. So the end result sounds awful. except maybe in your car with the windows down in a construction zone.