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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." ]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @09:18AM (1 child)
Oh, I can almost guarantee they count it as "not". As in "not licensed by us".
Notice how they feel that more regulation is the solution. Pirating music is already illegal and you don't get rid of crime by outlawing doing illegal things.
So it's pretty obvious that what they are really talking about are all those pesky unlicensed bands producing music without a music production license and selling it without the IFPI getting a cut. It becomes even more obvious when you realize that music has gone moved from mostly pirating old-fashioned CDs to legal streams, and the only thing that has actually gone up is the number of "unlicensed musicians", who have figured out that rather than a record contract, all you need is a Soundcloud / Bandcamp account or someone with a bit of HTML knowledge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:56PM
They used to install rootkits on people's PCs, shake down people in the streets to see if they were listening to pirated music and sue people at random hoping or settlements. Who knows what they want to do now.