· International Federation of Phonographic Industries published its digital music report for 2008, which boldly said that "the spread of unlicensed music on ISP networks is choking revenues to record companies and investment in artists, despite a healthy increase in digital sales in 2007, up approximately 40% on the previous year". (If you're wondering, those sales were $2.9bn (£1.45bn) for the year, including ringtones.)
· IFPI's solution is to sort it out at the internet service provider level. "ISP cooperation, via systematic disconnection of infringers and the use of filtering technologies, is the most effective way copyright theft can be controlled. Independent estimates say up to 80 per cent of ISP traffic comprises distribution of copyright-infringing files."
Article sharing:
· People now copy-and-paste entire articles from online newspapers to blog sites or to their own computer and they don't pay a thing. Then they read them or "share" them with other people.
· Pornography used to make a comfortable living for many of the top-shelf magazines. But now there are loads of internet sites where you can get free amateur porn - exactly the same sort of stuff that people used to pay for!
· So before the IFPI gets ISPs to start inspecting the packets passing through their routers for music, they'd better sort it out first so that ISPs can see and stop it when someone is copying newspaper articles, or pornographic content, or reading suspiciously helpful newsgroups, or downloading a ROM sequence for a now-outdated console. Then we'll be ready to listen to the music industry.
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