Tag archive: IFPI

Supporters of The Pirate Bay, which is currently on trial in Sweden for copyright issues, have hacked the site of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). On Wednesday they left a message on the Swedish site, demanding that the prosecutor “stop lying.” Yesterday they stepped things up with a denial of service attack on the international site that kept visitors out for hours, according to Vnunet. IFPI… Read More

The UK's IFPI—a trade association representing the recording industry, analogous to the RIAA in the United States—has published its Digital Music Report 2009, and finds that sales of digital music grew by 25 percent worldwide during the 2008 calendar year. According to the IFPI, the music download business is now worth about $3.7 billion a year, and digital music sales now account for about 20 percent of all music sales, up… Read More

Baidu.com is China's leading Internet search engine—and that, by sheer numbers, makes it one of the most-used search engines on the planet. Now, by way of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), music labels Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, and Universal Music Group are asking a court to order Baidu to remove all links from its index that point to music files being distributed in violation of copyright… Read More

In a gesture worthy of Captain Jack Sparrow, Internet pirates have fired a broadside against the establishment.   The Swedish site Pirate Bay, whichspecializes in file sharing, evidently had had enough of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which owns the domain www.ifpi.org. So when someone offered them the domain ifpi.com, they happily took it up as a way of sowing confusion among the enemy.   According… Read More

The London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) (basically the U.K.'s equivalent of the RIAA) has published a new report in which is estimates that digital music sales accounted for about $2 billion in overall revenue for the music industry—that figure represents a doubling of the market compared to 2005, in which overall digital music revenues were around $1 billion. According to the IFPI, digital… Read More

The International Federation for the Phonographic Industry reported today that worldwide digital music sales tripled in 2005 to $1.1 billion, up from $380 million in 2004, with spending split roughly 60-40 between online music services like Apple's iTunes Music Stores and mobile phone ringtones. Based on the IFPI's figures, digital music sales would account for approximately 6 percent of the music industry's worldwide… Read More

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a UK-based international organization representing the recording industry, reported today that, during the first six months of the year, growing demand for digital music via the Internet and to mobile phones nearly offset the years-long decline in worldwide music sales in physical formats. For the first half of 2005, the IFPI estimates the retail value of digital music sales… Read More

Source: IFPI.org The recording industry today showed the first positive results from its international deterrence campaign against illegal file-sharing and warned that a new wave of litigation will take place in new countries within months. Today's results show that legal awareness among the European public has increased and the number of pirate files on the internet has fallen steadily. Meanwhile, the number of legal sites where… Read More