Copyright Infringement Archive

  • IFPI claims that music piracy is right up there with climate change. At least they’re not being melodramatic about it.

    IFPI claims that music piracy is right up there with climate change. At least they’re not being melodramatic about it.

    The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is sorta like a worldwide RIAA, representing record labels, artists, and musicians to make sure their agenda is always out there. That, of course, makes it pure evil. It just published its Digital Music Report 2010, which tries to detail the situation vis-à-vis digital music, piracy, and so on. The big, scary headline: music piracy is right up there with climate change as an issue of monumental, worldwide importance. Sure, OK.

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