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 November 2007

Artistes, majors et acteurs du Web disent non au piratage

La salle des fêtes du Palais de l’Élysée avait des airs de Fouquet’s hier, lorsque le président de la République a salué l’accord antipiratage auquel la mission Olivennes a abouti. Les personnalités du monde de la chanson (Patrick Bruel, Marc Lavoine, Alain Chamfort), du cinéma (Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Claude Berri, Pascal Thomas...) étaient toutes réunies pour applaudir la signature d’un accord historique entre les fournisseurs d’accès à Internet (FAI), d’un côté, et artistes, producteurs de films, de musique ou de vidéo et les chaînes de télévision, de l’autre, pour enrayer la généralisation du téléchargement illégal de musiques et de films. Au total, 42 organismes professionnels et entreprises ont apposé leur signature. Christine Albanel, le ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, qui avait chargé il y a deux mois et demi le patron de la Fnac Denis Olivennes de cette mission, a rappelé que l’industrie de la musique avait perdu près de 50 % de son activité en trois ans. Nicolas Sarkozy a dénoncé «l’illusion et même le mensonge de la gratuité», «le clonage et la dématérialisation de fichiers à l’infini qui conduit à la ruine progressive de l’économie musicale en déconnectant les œuvres de leurs coûts de fabrication». Devant un public conquis, il a rappelé qu’«Internet ne doit pas devenir un Far West high-tech».

Le Figaro, 2007, November 23rd | Language: FR | 671 words

IFPI

Recording industry calls on EU to tackle China's massive music piracy problem

Heads of the international recording industry came to Brussels today to raise with EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, the serious piracy and market access problems they face when trying to do business in China.

IFPI, 2007, November 15th | Language: EN | 321 words

It's time to get rid of DRM

Andy is correct - there's nothing to prevent a person from taking any DRM-encoded MP3 music files and burning them to a music CD for playback or then recompressing the songs as DRM-free MP3s that then can be imported into any MP3 player outside iTunes or the iPod.

Bismarck Tribune, 2007, November 11th | Language: EN | 1149 words

zdnet

Studie bevestigt nood aan taks op lege cd's

Een studie toont aan dat de Europese taksen op mp3-spelers en lege cd's noodzakelijk zijn. Het geld is volgens het onderzoek nodig om artiesten te ondersteunen. Dit ondergraaft meteen het verzoek van cd-fabrikanten om de heffingen op Europees niveau te hervormen en te verminderen.

Zdnet, 2007, November 9th | Language: EN | 268 words

bbc

Most 'paid nothing for Radiohead'

Nearly two-thirds of downloaders paid nothing for Radiohead's latest album, a survey has suggested. Fans were invited to put their own price on the 10 MP3 files that made up In Rainbows, from nothing to £100. But internet monitoring company Comscore found that only 38% of downloaders willingly paid to do so. The average price paid for the album was $6 (£2.90), the study - based on a survey of the online behaviour of over two million internet users - found.

Bbc, 2007, November 7th | Language: EN | 323 words

Investigation into DJ piracy amid claims newcomers are stealing the show

Long-time DJs say the shift from vinyl to CDs and laptops has paved the way for a new generation of DJs who cut costs by obtaining music from illegal file-sharing websites. Industry veterans say as many as 90 per cent of the DJs playing in Australian clubs are guilty.

Sydney Morning Herald, 2007, November 7th | Language: EN | 551 words

the guardian

Jazz label joins the DRM-free revolution

Record label Universal Music Classics & Jazz is making its entire catalogue available online without copying protections as part of an experiment to gauge fans' demand for MP3 tracks

The Guardian, 2007, November 7th | Language: EN | 371 words

Radiohead shafted by freeloaders

According to Comscore, about 1.2 million people visited Radiohead’s website during October, and a significant portion downloaded the album. Rumors have been bouncing around for quite awhile as to how many people chose to pay for their download, but Comscore stated that only two out of five downloaders may actually have paid for their download. The firm said that 40% of U.S. based users and 36% non-U.S. users paid for the album.

The Inquirer, 2007, November 7th | Language: EN | 286 words

ASCAP and i-SAFE Bring Youth Music Piracy Educational Program to Capitol Hill

The American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing over 300,000 music creators and copyright owners, and i-SAFE Inc.(TM), the worldwide leader in Internet safety education, will host a special interactive assembly program today in Washington, D.C. The assembly, entitled "The Donny the Downloader Experience," aims to help young people understand the impact of music piracy (...)

Sys-Con Media, 2007, November 7th | Language: EN | 829 words

Torrent Freak

Canadian Study: Piracy Boosts CD Sales

University of London researchers, Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz surveyed a large group of Canadians to find out what the effect of piracy is on music sales. The results are surprising, at least, for the music industry.

Torrent Freak, 2007, November 3rd | Language: EN | 312 words

bbc

The day the music died

In February 2006, a part-time Canadian music student established a modest, non-commercial website that used collaborative wiki tools, such as those used by Wikipedia, to create an online library of public domain musical scores. Within a matter of months, the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) featured more than 1,000 musical scores for which the copyright had expired in Canada. (...) Universal Edition, an Austrian music publisher, retained a Canadian law firm to demand that the site block European users from accessing certain works and from adding new scores for which the copyright had not expired in Europe. The company noted that while the music scores entered the public domain in Canada 50 years after a composer's death, Europe's copyright term is 20 years longer.

Bbc, 2007, November 2nd | Language: EN | 714 words

University of Oregon refusing to help ID music pirates

Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers filed court papers this week seeking to free the University of Oregon from having to identify students who illegally downloaded music.

Seattle Times, 2007, November 2nd | Language: EN | 351 words

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