AND STILL COME THE LAWSUITS

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 [No Rock&Roll Fun] The findings in the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) Recording Industry in Numbers, 2001 report reveal that the UK accounts for an average four record purchases a year per person. With such a success rate, you'd have thought the IFPI would have been keen to encourage the other nations to follow the BPI's original response to file-sharing (moaning and stomping and wagging fingers) rather than forcing the BPI to legitimise the RIAA approach of punitive lawsuits.

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 [Xrrf.blogspot.com] No Rock&Roll Fun: (and justify all the cash the labels pour into the RIAA and IFPI) rather than .Rather than the BPI admitting that we're being raped on the prices we .

[Philpem.me.uk] philpem’s blog » 2005 » June: If someone happens to know of a UK-based anime/manga distributor that sells DVDs at or near RRP, please use the Comment link below to leave their details here. I have money and I want to spend it!

[Weblogs.jupiterresearch.com] Mark Mulligan: March 2004 Archives: Just as the front page of today’s Music Week is awash with news of the BPI’s ‘warn- not-litigate’ policy, the IFPI announces from it’s London Secretariat that it is taking legal action against individual file sharers in various countries as part of an international strategy. On the day that Peter...

[Iptablog.org] IPTAblog: File Sharing Archives: Tyler Cowen - Professor of Economics at George Mason University and author of Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures, What Price Fame?, and In Praise of Commercial Culture - argues here that it is not an attempt to scare off the downloaders, similar suits in the US have not stopped illegal file-sharing. Rather, Prof.

[Digitalmusicnews.com] Digital Music News: Insider Blogs: Anyway, to cut a long story short, the FCC envisions a future where it’s more of a traffic cop and less a real estate agent. Broadcasters and cell phone companies (who’ve sunk billions of dollars in 3G licenses) will oppose any change of licensing regime (remember they own the beachfront “property”), or allowing others to broadcast at their frequency ranges.

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Posted at September 09, 2005 05:03 PM