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BPI Threaten Uploaders With Legal Action

Posted by timothy on from the and-this-was-unexpected-in-what-way dept.

rizole writes "Following the RIAA, ARIA and more recently the CRIA, the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) intend warning 'serial uploaders' that they risk court action if they continue their activities. The BPI has announced a new 'instant messaging' campaign to warn offenders and quotes research that indicates that downloaders spending on albums was down 32%, and spending on singles was down 59% over the previous year. All the best U.S. trends get exported to the UK."

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  1. UK singles down...because they're lousy value by rklrkl · · Score: 2, Informative

    Let me see - 2 or 3 tracks for 3.99 pounds ($7) on a UK CD single. Oh, sorry, 2 or 3 discs per single, so that's anything up to 12 pounds ($20) for a UK CD single ! Any wonder why UK CD singles sales are down ? In the early 90's, you could get an 8 track UK CD single for 99p ($1.80) - 10 years later and the price has multiplied by a factor of 12 !

  2. Reap what you sow by DrSkwid · · Score: 3, Informative

    A few snippets from the archives

    Lest we forget

    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38103, 00 .html
    Aug. 08, 2000

    Twenty-eight states filed suit Tuesday against the five biggest record companies and two music retailing giants, accusing them of conspiring to fix CD prices.

    "This illegal action by record companies and retailers has not been music to the ears of the public," New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said in a statement. "Because of these conspiracies, tens of millions of consumers paid inflated prices to buy CDs of artists including Santana, Whitney Houston, Madonna, and Eric Clapton."

    Tuesday, 12 June, 2001, 12:33 GMT 13:33 UK

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1384638.stm

    EU opens online music probe

    Mario Monti: 'A number of issues merit close attention'
    The European Competition Commission has decided to investigate two online music ventures, set up by leading players in the music industry.

    The two ventures being probed are MusicNet - to be launched later this year by AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI - and a service formerly known as Duet.

    Duet is a collaboration between 0Vivendi Universal and Sony, and was renamed Pressplay on Monday.

    Monday, 23 July, 2001
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1452686. stm

    Vivendi profits surge 53%

    Tuesday, 31 July, 2001,

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1467198.stm

    Music giants face price-fix charge

    AOL Time Warner and Vivendi Universal have been charged by the US Federal Trade Commission with conspiring to fix prices of audio and video recordings of concerts by the Three Tenors.

    AOL has reached a settlement with the FTC, while the case against Vivendi will be the subject of a hearing, the US regulator said.

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  3. The usual lies... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Informative
    "The illegal downloaders tend to go for the most popular artists, but in the long term unknown artists will lose out because record companies will not have the money to invest in new artists."


    Actually, new artists are required to take out a loan, so there isn't really much of an "investment" anyway.


    Most unsigned bands that give away MP3s seem to think it works out in their favor anyway.

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