Tag archive: digital piracy

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has released findings from a study by MarkMonitor, a brand protection firm. The study perused the Web for sites hosting illegal copies of 10 major digital brands (movies, music, etc) and found that 43 major sites that sold digital pirated goods generated more than 146 million visits every day. That's about 53 billion visits a year. More interesting, visits to digital pirating sites in one day (146 million) are… Read More

In a rare sign of bipartisan cooperation, members of Congress have come together to propose a piece of legislation to fight digital piracy. The new law is set to go before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and would specifically target websites that the legislation says are “dedicated to making infringing activities”. According to a report from the website Gameindustry.biz, the bill, which was co-sponsored by the Judiciary Committee’s chairman,… Read More

“The IFPI said research firm Jupiter expects the $330 million online music market to double in 2005. The increasing popularity of online music stores is welcome news to a music industry that blames digital piracy for more than two years of precipitous sales declines.” The article says there are more than 1 million songs available for download on the net at this time. Read more at CNN/Money

“The majority of entertainment companies, unsure of Microsoft's motives and wary of its cutthroat tactics in the battle for the computer desktop, have preferred to maintain an arm's-lengthrelationship with the software Goliath. But these days, studios fear digital piracy more than they fear Microsoft and have slowly begun to make deals to use its software tools, albeit on a non-exclusive basis. For its part, Microsoft has… Read More

On April 7, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) reported that sales of recorded music dropped 7.6% in 2003. Unit sales are off a cumulative 20% over the past three years, the London-based trade association reported. Worldwide sales of CD albums, which account for 86% of all recorded music, dropped 9.1%; CD singles dropped 18.7%. IFPI chairman and CEO Jay Berman described 2003 as “another difficult… Read More

FBI officials said the idea was conceived jointly by the agency's cyber crime division and representatives of the entertainment and software industries, who claim they've lost billions of dollars due to digital piracy. Read more at CNN.com.