http://www.latimes.com/business/la-et-ct-state-of-stealing-music-20150620-story.html#vf-2285900001610
Once
again IFPI/Music Watch acts like the number of ppl who use sites "offering
copyright infringing music" is a one-for-one indicator of the
problem. It ignores the songs that have
been already downloaded and continue to be used. The Digital Content Exchange properly terms
this The Counterfeit Problem. There are
probably thousands of counterfeits per user since mp3s have been around for
almost 20 years now. Yes, the DCE has
had conversations with the IFPI and they dont get it ... or choose not to get
it. So they keep carping about interdicting "sites offering copyright
infringing music" which is seldom a solution but always a threat to the
Internet. Yet they won't use their
position as umbrella to the worldwide recording industry to do anything
cooperatively about counterfeits that would help increase the value of music
without any takedown requests or heavy-handed moves.
