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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 April 2007

Time to set the record straight on copyright

As we all know, however, the internet has also escalated small-scale sharing between friends to the level of global music piracy. By digitising music, technology has rendered it more malleable - able to change format or be sent thousands of miles with ease and little loss of quality. Almost any PC now has the power to illegally download an album from one of several file-sharing services, before making an unlimited number of almost perfect CD copies.

Scotsman, 2007, April 26th | Language: EN | 1036 words

Yahoo China Loses Music Piracy Case

A court has ordered Yahoo Inc.'s China subsidiary to pay $27,000 for aiding music piracy, the company and a music industry group said Tuesday. The ruling came amid U.S. pressure for Beijing to stop rampant copying of music and other goods.

Forbes, 2007, April 24th | Language: EN | 443 words

EU assembly to adopt punishments tackling piracy

The European Parliament is set to make legal history on Wednesday by adopting harmonized sanctions to combat piracy across the European Union. Criminal punishment has been the preserve of the bloc's 27 member states, but the EU assembly will endorse a measure to fine counterfeiters up to 300,000 euros ($407,000) or imprison them for up to four years.

Reuters, 2007, April 24th | Language: EN | 436 words

Chinese court rules against Yahoo in music piracy lawsuit

A court has ruled against Yahoo Inc.'s China arm in a lawsuit by recording companies over music piracy, a state news agency said Tuesday, amid U.S. pressure on Beijing to crack down on widespread copying of music, movies and other goods. Companies including Warner Music, Sony BMG and Universal Vivendi accused Yahoo China of violating copyrights because of links between its search engine and Web sites with 229 illegally copied songs.

International Herald Tribune, 2007, April 24th | Language: EN | 290 words

Audio Piracy: Eating up music industry

Lack of proper legislation and enforcement of existing laws are giving an alarming rise to music piracy that reached such a level that more than 95 percent CDs sold in the market are found pirated, industry sources said.

The Daily Star (bangladesh), 2007, April 23rd | Language: EN | 966 words

Two Defendants Plead Guilty In Internet Music Piracy Crackdown

Two defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully reproduce and distribute copyrighted music over the Internet (...) Gomez and Ribiakost were leading members in the illegal software, game, movie and music trade online, commonly referred to as the warez scene. The defendants were active members of the pre-release music group Apocalypse Crew (APC), one of a handful of organized online criminal groups that acted as "first-providers" of much of the pirated music available on the Internet.

PR-inside.com, 2007, April 20th | Language: EN | 530 words

AnywhereCD sues Warner Music

AnywhereCD, a two-week-old online music retailer, filed a lawsuit against Warner Music Group on Friday, alleging breach of contract, business defamation and trade libel. (...) The original dispute stems from a cease and desist order issued last week by Warner Music asking AnywhereCD, which offers both CDs and MP3s, to stop selling its artists' albums as MP3 files, a digital download format without anti-piracy protection.

Msn Money, 2007, April 20th | Language: EN | 451 words

Watchdog for online piracy trains at Orlando university

School officials have confirmed that the campus is experimenting with a new watchdog program designed to prevent students from using computers to swap copyright-protected files.

Daily Kent Stater, 2007, April 20th | Language: EN | 951 words

Global music official says Russia must tackle music piracy

At an anti-piracy conference, John Kennedy, president of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, called on Russian authorities to quash the illicit industry, which is second in the world only to China's.

The Vancouver Sun, 2007, April 17th | Language: EN | 392 words

Record biz sends piracy warnings to universities

The record industry Wednesday continued its controversial effort to stop campus music piracy as it sent off more than 400 prelitigation settlement letters to 21 universities. (...) "Without question, this new enforcement initiative has invigorated a meaningful conversation on college campuses about music theft, its consequences and the numerous ways to enjoy legal music," said Steven Marks, executive vp and general counsel for the RIAA.

Reuters, 2007, April 12th | Language: EN | 254 words

Europe clamps down on music piracy

The European Parliament is due to vote April 27 on a proposed European Commission (EC) directive, which for the first time would harmonize criminal penalties for a specific range of intellectual-property (IP) crimes in all 27 EU countries. The legislation, which is widely expected to be adopted, would replace individual domestic legislation across the region, where pirates currently face wildly differing penalties depending on where they are prosecuted.

Reuters, 2007, April 9th | Language: EN | 665 words

In the Philippines, even Christian music gets pirated

Music piracy is big business in the Philippines and Raul is just one of the merchants of the illegal trade in Tutuban Mall in Divisoria. Aside from music from the latest chart-topping artists such as Beyonce and Justin Timberlake, even non-mainstream acts such as Don Moen and Hillsong are now being hawked by street vendors. With over 80 of the country Catholic, it stands to reason that most Filipinos would acquire a taste for inspirational music.

Abs-cbn Interactive, 2007, April 7th | Language: EN | 1364 words

Piracy police promise pain

Anyone caught with 500 pirated discs will face criminal prosecution instead of fines, down from the previous 1,000 discs, Xinhua said. It said the number of discs that triggers more severe penalties of up to seven years in prison was cut in half to 2,500.

Shangaiist, 2007, April 7th | Language: EN | 328 words

[VIDEO] Forse toename van filmpiraterij

In 2006 pakte de politie of douane zo'n 300 Belgen op die vervalste dvd's of cd's met films en games verkochten. (...) Tegen een honderdtal van die driehonderd gekliste piraten zal een rechtszaak worden aangespannen. Vorig jaar leverden uitspraken in al lopende rechtszaken voor 1,137 miljoen euro aan schadevergoedingen op.

De Morgen, 2007, April 5th | Language: NL | 161 words

Spinning Into Oblivion

Today's single is an individual track downloaded online from legal sites like iTunes or eMusic, or the multiple illegal sites that cater to less scrupulous music lovers. The album, or collection of songs — the de facto way to buy pop music for the last 40 years — is suddenly looking old-fashioned. And the record store itself is going the way of the shoehorn.

The New York Times, 2007, April 5th | Language: EN | 1103 words

EMI-Apple deal liberates digital music world

Music fans will soon be able to share, copy and re-format the songs they download, after a ground-breaking deal between EMI and Apple, which runs ths iTunes service. Eric Nicoli, chief executive of EMI, announced today that tracks by artists including Robbie Williams and Norah Jones would be now available free of digital rights management software (DRM), for an extra 20p per song. (...) Music fans will also be able to transfer the DRM-free songs onto a wide variety of MP3 players for the first time, and previous DRM dowloands can be upgraded for an extra 20p.

Telegraph Newspaper Online, 2007, April 3rd | Language: EN | 325 words

Free Record Shop wil keurmerk voor cd's

Vorig jaar werd FRS het slachtoffer van illegale cd's die in een aantal van zijn winkels waren terechtgekomen. (...) FRS wijst op de situatie in Italië, waar cd's nu al voorzien zijn van een keurmerk. In Noorwegen neemt FRS deel aan een grootscheepse anti-piraterij campagne, samen met de muziekindustrie en de belangenvereniging van Noorse artiesten.

De Morgen, 2007, April 3rd | Language: NL | 174 words

EMI stapt af van online-kopieerbeveiliging

Platenfirma EMI wil voor het eerst muziek op het internet aanbieden zonder kopieerbeveiliging. Een groot deel uit de muziekcatalogus van EMI zal voortaan op Apples muziekwinkel iTunes te koop zijn zonder bescherming door DRM (Digital Rights Management).

De Standaard, 2007, April 2nd | Language: NL | 240 words

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