Pirate discs boom globally
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Reports on compact disc (CD) piracy in Bulgaria. International Federation of Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) call on the European Union to act against Bulgaria's piracy problem.
- Dutch pirates suffer major blow. // Billboard;09/25/99, Vol. 111 Issue 39, p73
Reports on the crackdown on organized piracy of music recordings in the Netherlands. Persons charged with copyright infringement and membership in a criminal organization; Series of raids in various locations in the Netherlands and Germany; Production process of pirate compilation of compact...
- New Captain Emerges on the Digital Piracy Scene. Brown, Cliston // Corporate Legal Times;Jul2001, Vol. 11 Issue 116, pBWB10
Reports on the piracy problems of Ukraine which has caught the ire of Western governments. United States trade sanction warning; Piracy level for international music; Laxity on the intellectual property issue; Problems presented to the international recording industry.
- U.K. push busts CD piracy ring. Masson, Gordon // Daily Variety;8/19/2004, Vol. 284 Issue 33, p6
Reports on the arrest of fourteen compact discs pirates at a market in Great Britain.
- Internet pirating bonanza irks music industry. Harris, Ron // Long Island Business News (7/1993 to 5/2009);04/21/2000, Vol. 47 Issue 16, p8B
Focuses on the Internet pirating software called Gnutella. Vulnerability of the Internet to computer hackers; Similarity and differences of Gnutella with Napster; Lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against Napster; Development of Gnutella by programmers at Nullsoft,...
- Music industry and ISPs pass the buck on responsibility for piracy. Adegoke, Yinka // New Media Age;1/30/2003, p16
Reports on the increasing incidence of music piracy in the U.S. Significance of a U.S. federal ruling against Verizon Communications; Number of illicit sites removed as a result of the partnership between the International Federation of Phonographic Industries and Internet service providers;...
- Interactive news. Jones, Gareth // Australian Personal Computer;Aug99, Vol. 20 Issue 8, p200
Reports on developments concerning interactive media worldwide, as of August 1999. Emergence of digital video disc (DVD) as the major home video standard; Development of in-dash DVD video players; Cost of music piracy.
- Spanish Biz, Government United Against Piracy. Llewellyn, Howell // Billboard;2/26/2005, Vol. 117 Issue 9, p49
Reports on the move of the music industry executives and the government in Spain to tackle the problem of piracy. Impact of piracy on the country's music industry; Decline of music sales in the country since 2000; Estimate on the size of the music trade in the country.
- Bootleg scores big business. Burlingame, Jon // Daily Variety;09/13/2000, Vol. 269 Issue 8, pA1
Focuses on the growing piracy of unreleased motion picture music worldwide. Examples of pirated musical scores that major motion picture studios have had to deal with; Private tape trading among collectors; High level of demand for rejected scores; Losses suffered by studios and composers from...
