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