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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."

3 of 29 comments (clear)

  1. Re:May I be frank. by a+whoabot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cool. The model has raised a mass that cares only about consumption: totally immoral, so that they can just spend more and more money. Then, they expect people to not share music because "stealing is bad"? That's ridiculous. They raised consumption-happy people, now they have to deal with the implosion.

  2. Downloader's spending?!? by El · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How exactly did the statisticians determine which of the people not buying albums were downloaders? Or which of the downloaders were not buying albums? If there are 32% fewer downloaders, then could that result in downloaders spending 32% less? Apparently there are lies, damn lies, statistics... and then there are BPI claims.

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  3. Illegal IM Campaign by DrPepper · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I do hope that they got all those people to opt-in to receiving message from them. Under the new Electronic Privacy and Communcations Act (2003) I believe what they are proposing would count as unsolicited electronic communications. Anyone who receives one of these might want to try making a complaint to the Information Comissioner.