Music piracy research - news archive

Music piracy ('muziekpiraterij' in dutch) is a very complex phenomenon to comprehend. These pages wishes to address all of you who are interested in music piracy in a broad sense. You'll find 2721 articles related to music and video piracy (with special attention to articles from Belgium and the Netherlands) originating from 526 unique (web)sources. I started archiving news articles about music and video piracy since 1999. In 2001 I wrote a scientific dissertation about music piracy for my Master's degree in Communication Sciences at the K.U.Leuven. This dissertation incluced a survey among 1500 individuals.

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Jan Verkoyen

Archive for January 2007

Vervalsing en piraterij kost jaarlijks 100 miljard dollar

De WIPO houdt momenteel de derde wereldconferentie over de bestrijding van vervalsingen en piraterij. (...) Uit een recente studie van ICC kwam naar voren dat vooral in Rusland en China veel goederen worden vervalst en muziek en films illegaal worden gekopieerd.

De Telegraaf, 2007, January 30th | Language: NL | 143 words

US teen in music piracy lawsuit accuses record companies of collusion

A 16-year-old boy being sued for online music piracy accused the recording industry of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.

International Herald Tribune, 2007, January 30th | Language: EN | 401 words

Crackdown on YouTube may trigger UK test case

"Many seem to be under the impression that using, for example, a pop song as the backing track to an amateur video is lawful. It is not." He added: "We are likely to see action against an individual in the UK — a test case which will send out a message that it is not OK to use copyrighted material on the web. We have seen in it the music industry; it is not hard to predict it will happen in the TV industry."

Times Online, 2007, January 27th | Language: EN | 543 words

PvdA en CDA denken na over heffing internetabonnement

Platenmaatschappijen moeten accepteren dat er via internet onbetaald muziek gekopieerd wordt. Als financiële compensatie zou daar een heffing op internetabonnementen voor kunnen komen. Dat zegt PvdA-Kamerlid Martijn van Dam (...) "Als platenmaatschappijen minder kiezen voor beveiliging en DRM, als ze accepteren dat er nu eenmaal gekopieerd wordt, dan valt er te praten over meer compensatie door middel van heffingen. (...)

Nu, 2007, January 26th | Language: NL | 364 words

France and Germany join Nordic campaign to unlock iTunes

The action alleges that Apple's business practices break contract law and are anti-competitive. Music bought from Apple's iTunes service tracks can only be played by PCs or iPods but not other digital music players. It is this 'lock-in' that is the subject of consumer group protests. (...) At the annual Midem music industry conference in Cannes executives told of a weakened resolve to stick with DRM, which remains controversial with users and is opposed by many who believe it imposes new and restrictive conditions on consumers.

Out-law, 2007, January 24th | Language: EN | 445 words

Rage opgepepte mp3-spelers is ramp voor oren van jeugd

Steeds meer jongeren downloaden software van het internet om het volume van hun mp3-speler op te drijven. Professor audiologie Bart Vinck waarschuwt voor zware gehoorschade bij de jeugd.

De Standaard, 2007, January 22nd | Language: NL | 588 words

Music industry divided over digital future

Critics of the major players in the industry argue that they have been distracted by the fight against piracy and in doing so, hindered the growth of the legal business. (...) Much of the debate at the gathering on the French coast has centered around the concept of digital rights management or DRM (...) But not everyone agrees.

Reuters, 2007, January 22nd | Language: EN | 742 words

Italian court says piracy not a crime

In a blow to Italy's campaign against piracy, a Rome court has ruled that the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted movies, music and video games is not a crime if the downloader does not profit from the action. (...) In 2003, Silvio Berlusconi's government passed one of Europe's toughest copyright laws, modeled on the EU's copyright directive, passing down stiff fines for commercial pirates and individual downloaders. But the law is rarely enforced (...)

Variety, 2007, January 22nd | Language: EN | 211 words

ISPs hit back at music industry

He said that ISPs could only move to cut users off based on a court order, and that the data protection legislation prevented the online companies from trying to prevent copyright infringement.

Msnbc, 2007, January 19th | Language: EN | 337 words

Music industry threatens ISPs over piracy

The music industry opened up a new front in the war on online music piracy yesterday, threatening to sue internet service providers that allow customers to illegally share copyrighted tracks over their networks. (...) The IFPI wants ISPs to disconnect users who refuse to stop exchanging music files illegally. Mr Kennedy said such activity is in breach of a customer's contract with the ISP and disconnecting offenders the IFPI had identified would significantly reduce illegal file sharing.

The Independent, 2007, January 18th | Language: EN | 498 words

Omzet muziekdownloads in 2006 verdubbeld

Gedownloade muziek was in 2006 goed voor 10 procent van de omzet van de wereldwijde muziekmarkt, zegt de IFPI. (...) De verkoop van draagbare muziekspelers ten slotte, steeg met 43 procent tot 120 miljoen eenheden.

De Standaard, 2007, January 17th | Language: NL | 257 words

IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2007

IFPI Chairman and CEO John Kennedy said: "The record industry today has evolved into a digital thinking, digitally literate business. Revenues in 2006 doubled to about $2 billion and by 2010 we expect at least one quarter of all music sales worldwide to be digital. This is a market combining evolution and revolution, where the learning curve is changing direction on a regular basis. "The chief winners in the rise of digital music are consumers. They have effectively been given access to 24-hour music stores with unlimited shelf space. They can consume music in new ways and formats - an iTunes download, a video on YouTube, a ringtone or a subscription library.

IFPI, 2007, January 17th | Language: EN | 938 words

EMI to offer free online music in China

EMI is to provide its complete catalogue of local recordings free of charge in China, under a deal with Chinese web search leader Baidu. The new agreement represents a remarkable about-face for the two companies, which have been locked in a legal struggle over alleged music piracy connected to Baidu's music file search services.

Vnu Net, 2007, January 16th | Language: EN | 398 words

DJ Drama, Don Cannon's Offices Raided By RIAA; Website Shut Down

Mixtape DJs Drama and Don Cannon were arrested Tuesday night (January 16) when the RIAA and local authorities raided their downtown Atlanta offices to serve search warrants for the pair for music piracy. (...) During the raid, authorities confiscated nearly 50,000 illegal mixtapes, all of which have been taken in as evidence and will later be destroyed. Computers, recording equipment, money, bank statements and their vehicles were also seized in the raid.

BallerStatus, 2007, January 16th | Language: EN | 270 words

Daughter of defendant in well-known music piracy case is ordered to pay

Less than a month after the U.S. recording industry dropped a music piracy case against its most well-known opponent, it has won a judgment against the woman's daughter. Michelle Santangelo was ordered to pay $750 (€582) for each of the 41 songs she is accused of downloading illegally — a total of $30,750 (€23,850) — because she failed to respond to the record companies' claims.

International Herald Tribune, 2007, January 12th | Language: EN | 269 words

The Pirate Bay plans to buy Sealand

Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy the 550 square metre principality of Sealand (...) The group has set up a campaign to raise money to buy the self-declared sovereign nation. Outside the jurisdiction of the UK or any other country, The Pirate Bays believes it could safely run the world's largest 'bit torrent tracker'.

The Register, 2007, January 12th | Language: EN | 233 words

Uganda: Band Rolls to End Local Music Piracy

The Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act was assented by the 7th parliament commenced on 4th August 2006. To put it into action, the Uganda performing Rights Society (UPRS) has introduced stickers identified as band rolls with special security features that will curtail piracy.

Allafrica.com, 2007, January 12th | Language: EN | 1134 words

Zimbabwe: Music Pirates Should Be Heavily Punished

Fighting music piracy in Zimbabwe will be a futile exercise in the absence of tough laws specifically designed to weed out this cancer once and for all. In most cases, those arrested for piracy are not deterred by the "miniscule" fines which they easily recoup by burning more CDs.

Allafrica.com, 2007, January 11th | Language: EN | 317 words

[VIDEO] Torenhoge schadevergoeding dreigt voor paar dat dvd's namaakte

Een paar uit het Vlaams-Brabantse Lubbeek dreigt een schadevergoeding van 130.000 euro te moeten betalen aan enkele filmproductiehuizen en -verdelers.

De Morgen, 2007, January 8th | Language: NL | 236 words

Kopieerbeveiliging cd's van de baan

Platenfirma's maken geen gebruik meer van kopieerbeveiliging op muziekcd's. EMI is er onlangs als laatste mee gestopt. (...) Nu is echter duidelijk geworden dat de kosten niet opwegen tegen de resultaten, aldus de NVPI, die zich baseert op het Amerikaanse vakblad Billboard.

De Tijd, 2007, January 8th | Language: NL | 156 words

Rechtbank Den Haag: KPN moet persoonsgegevens afgeven aan BREIN en illegale site afgesloten houden

Service provider KPN weigerde een illegale website af te sluiten en de naam en het adres van de abonnee aan BREIN te verstrekken. BREIN eiste daarop van de rechter een bevel tot afsluiting van de site en afgifte van de persoonsgegevens van de abonnee. Die eisen werden vandaag toegewezen.

Stichting Brein, 2007, January 5th | Language: NL | 423 words

Toepassingen kopieerbeveiligingen cd's gestopt

De EMI Music Group is gestopt met het toepassen van kopieerbeveiligingen op nieuwe cd-releases. Dat betekent dat geen enkele platenmaatschappij op dit moment cd's uitbrengt die beveiligd zijn tegen het maken van digitale kopieen.

Nvpi, 2007, January 4th | Language: NL | 162 words

Resultaten 2006

BREIN nam in 2006 meer dan 12.000 antipiraterij acties. Het meeste daarvan betrof internetpiraterij. Er werden onder meer 115 illegale p2p sites met meer dan 1,5 miljoen geregistreerde gebruikers afgesloten.

Stichting Brein, 2007, January 2nd | Language: NL | 191 words

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