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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. 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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