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	MUSIC PIRACY AND THE AUDIO HOME RECORDING ACT
		In 1999, the music industry estimated that one in four compact discs of new music was actually an unauthorized copy.
		While music copyright owners are taking action to protect their content, the United States Senate is considering controversial legislation that would require IT manufacturers to implement safeguards against unauthorized copying of music.
		Pirated music has become such a large issue that it undoubtedly warrants the attention that it is receiving.
	www.law.duke.edu /journals/dltr/articles/2002dltr0023.html (2590 words)

	music - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Music is generally divided into different genres or styles such as classical music, jazz, pop music, country, and so on.
		The organ was introduced in the 8th century, and in the 9th century, music using a very primitive form of harmony began to be used in churches, with notation gradually developing towards its present form.
		Music enwrapped her, and she could not enter into the distinction that divides young men whom one takes an interest in from young men whom one knows.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /music (1328 words)

	Educating Music Students About Music Piracy
		The point is that we, as music teachers, must do our best to use teachable moments in our classroom to point out the legalities of file sharing and music piracy.
		In an article on this subject of teaching about music piracy the Project Opus web site compares these educational tactics to "letting the wolf teach the sheep how to graze." Others openly complain about the bullish tactics of the music industry and their less than perfect record of mistaken identity.
		Regardless of your personal stance on music piracy, copyright, the RIAA, and all the other buzz words of the day it cannot be denied that as music educators we are expected to not just teach the curriculum, but also (ala Mr.
	www.musicedmagic.com /blogtales-from-the-podium/educating-music-students-about-music-piracy.html (523 words)

	OpenP2P.com -- Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution
		Piracy is a kind of progressive taxation, which may shave a few percentage points off the sales of well-known artists (and I say "may" because even that point is not proven), in exchange for massive benefits to the far greater number for whom exposure may lead to increased revenues.
		Piracy is a loaded word, which we used to reserve for wholesale copying and resale of illegitimate product.
		Piracy is an illegal commercial activity that is typically a substantial problem only in countries without strong enforcement of existing copyright law.
	www.openp2p.com /pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html (1955 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Pupils to get anti-piracy lessons
		Lessons on music piracy and copyright issues are to be taught to secondary school pupils in the UK.
		Music piracy, including illegally swapping music online, costs the UK music industry millions every year and has been blamed for a decline in world-wide CD sales.
		British Music Rights (BMR) - which was formed to represent the interests of songwriters and composers - worked with education experts to put together a learning pack.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/4055753.stm (483 words)

	Music Feature \| Piracy killing the music business... or is it?
		Piracy is a global problem and many record companies are finding out that this is cutting seriously into their profits.
		The fact though is that the laws dealing with piracy of music and other intellectual property are on the books, it's just that they are not being vigorously enforced in Jamaica.
		In fact, quite a few of today's artistes who have made it big on an international scale owe it to Internet piracy, which allow people in various corners of the globe who wouldn't normally hear of them or their music, to now be chanting their songs on a daily basis.
	www.jahworks.org /music/features/piracy.htm (1041 words)

	How to Stop Music Piracy - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
		Music piracy is now so prevalent that I just heard from a reader who’s writing his MBA thesis about it.
		music industry has been stealing licensing royalties from musicians for decades to line the seats of plush limo's and furnish cocktails to the latest greatest....research the "Jewel" in the A/R men's caps that stole lyrics/hooks from that Georgia artist in the '90s - Discmakers never paid him a dime for the chorus he wrote....
		'Piracy' is illegal and unethical - that said, the industrys' reliance on IP law as currently written has contributed greatly to the problem.
	www.oreillynet.com /digitalmedia/blog/2006/09/how_to_stop_music_piracy.html (1599 words)

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		Once a music file passes through a computer, it is not legally required to impose restrictions on consumer freedoms such as SCMS (or SDMI).
		The group claims music piracy is a major cause of the global decline in music sales over the last five years.
		Brooke, a RTVF female student, indicated she only started engaging in the sharing of copyrighted music because she was provided the technology which made this possible.
	www.lycos.com /info/music-piracy--miscellaneous.html (510 words)

	Teaching About Music Piracy: Promoting the Legal Use of Copyrighted Music in Education
		Music piracy and the illegal file sharing of copyrighted music remains a major blemish on the face of colleges and universities across the United States.
		These collegiate music pirates also demonstrate the fact that teachers and parents may not be doing enough at the younger grades to teach and instill respect for music copyright and legal file sharing via the Internet or local networks.
		If the music has been ripped down to a computer’s hard drive for use in a presentation, ask that at least the CD case be brought in to prove that the music was copied legally.
	musicappreciation.suite101.com /article.cfm/teaching_about_music_piracy (548 words)

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		Music piracy is any form of unauthorized duplication and/or distribution of music including downloading, file sharing, and CD-burning.
		Yet when it comes to stealing digital recordings of copyrighted music, people somehow seem to think the same rules don’t apply—even though criminal penalties can be as high as five years in prison or $250,000 in fines.
		Stealing music threatens the livelihood of the thousands of working people—from recording engineers to Christian music retailers and their staffs —who are employed in this ministry.
	www.millionsofwrongs.org (376 words)

	Is Music Piracy Stealing?
		I know that music industry people will vigorously disagree, but if someone copies a song, the copyright-holder may or may not be out of revenue he or she might have realized if the item had been purchased, but is not left without something he or she once possessed and now doesn’t.
		Indeed, whatever the morality and ethics or lack of that music piracy represents, ruining the lives of individuals for petty non-commercial copyright infringement is vastly worse.
		Music is an arrangement of notes and sometimes words as well, but the vast majority of it is highly derivative.
	www.applelinks.com /mooresviews/pirate.shtml (2999 words)

	The History of Recorded Music - Piracy
		The term piracy is generally used to describe the deliberate infringement of a copyright on a commercial scale.
		Music corporations are looking at the bright side of the internet- the huge profits to be made- and limiting the negative side- where piracy falls into play.
		As piracy grew more and more, the government and the music industry realized that these remedies were not enough; people were still willing to risk such a small punishment for such a profitable business.
	www.computerdjsummit.com /members/documents/piracy.html (1955 words)

	Recording Industry Association of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Online piracy is the unauthorized uploading of a copyrighted sound recording and making it available to the public, or downloading a sound recording from an Internet site, even if the recording isn't resold.
		Music pirates are the first to lose because the recording industry and law enforcement officials are cracking down around the world.
		Record companies depend heavily on the profitable fifteen percent of recordings to subsidize the less profitable types of music, to cover the costs of developing new artists, and to keep their businesses operational.
	www.riaa.com /issues/piracy/default.asp (769 words)

	Daddy Yankee defends music piracy in Peru - Boston.com
		Music piracy is unstoppable, and justified for poor fans, Puerto Rican reggaeton sensation Daddy Yankee said Saturday in the Peruvian capital of Lima.
		LIMA, Peru --Music piracy is unstoppable, and justified for poor fans, Puerto Rican reggaeton sensation Daddy Yankee said Saturday in the Peruvian capital of Lima.
		Music and software piracy are widespread in Peru -- as is poverty, with more than half the population surviving on less than $2 a day.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/06/10/daddy_yankee_defends_music_piracy_in_peru (352 words)

	eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal
		The industry of music piracy, which has begun to flourish, dates back to the 1980s.
		That the music industry has incurred a loss of two billion rupees in the past five years due to piracy is a hard pill to swallow.
		The export of music, which was picking up a few years ago, has come to a complete halt just because of web piracy.
	www.kantipuronline.com /kolnews.php?&nid=93968 (457 words)

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		The Music industry has been putting a lot of pressure on colleges to help them stop music piracy, especially in the form of file sharing in college dormitories.
		Music piracy, which costs the global recording industry as much as $5 billion a year in lost sales is rising quickly due to Asia's economic crisis.
		Their actions are political - in terms of ideology - because they subvert the existing economic structure of profit with new ways of distributing a commodity, based usually on the principle of an ideal non-profitable equality.
	www.lycos.com /info/music-piracy--industry.html (512 words)

	Music industry threatens ISPs over piracy - Independent Online Edition > Business News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The music industry opened up a new front in the war on online music piracy yesterday, threatening to sue internet service providers that allow customers to illegally share copyrighted tracks over their networks.
		During 2006, global digital music sales doubled to about $2bn on the back of an 89 per cent surge in music downloads to 795 million.
		The success of the digital music market has been underlined by bands like Koopa which is expected to score a Top-40 hit this week despite having no record label or any physical copies of their CD on sale.
	news.independent.co.uk /business/news/article2162919.ece (574 words)

	Online Music Piracy
		One aspect of this campaign against online music piracy is to raise awareness and educate the public about the consequences that online music piracy has on the people who work in the music industry.
		Since online music piracy touches on such issues as privacy, copyright infringement, property rights and the evolution of digital media, many different Congressional committees are now addressing online music piracy.
		We know that the decision to sue music fans and consumers was a difficult one, but it was the last option available to combat online music piracy.
	www.afm.org /public/departments/leg_issues_05.php?print=1& (520 words)

	Music Piracy
		Occurring everywhere in America, especially on college campuses, music piracy has become one of the most acceptable forms of cheating in existence.
		Universal Music Group, the largest recording company in the world, is cutting 1,350 jobs because of sagging CD sales due to file-sharing and CD burning.
		The D.C. Court of Appeals heard arguments regarding music piracy that weighed individual computer users' right to privacy against existing copyright law.
	www.cheatingculture.com /musicpiracy.htm (251 words)

	supportUG :: The REAL Underground Music Supporting Community - MP34free.net In Court For Piracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The music industry will pursue damages against all five respondents in a major internet music piracy case after they were found to have infringed copyright.
		The general manager of Music Industry Piracy Investigations, Michael Kerin, said the case was very significant for the music industry.
		He was also found to have copied music files but not to have sold or dealt in them or to have electronically distributed the music.
	www.supportug.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=88 (415 words)

	>> IRMA << Piracy >>
		Music Piracy is a 5 billion dollar worldwide problem.
		Ireland, with its rich musical tradition, is also a lucrative market for piracy, with music industry losses running to EURO3.8 million annually, this figure increases to EURO63.5 million when pirated software and videos are included.
		IRMA personnel are accepted by the Courts as experts in the identification of piracy.
	www.irma.ie /piracy.htm (263 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| BT accused over music piracy
		The record industry blames illegal music sharing for contributing to a fall in sales.
		The record industry is determined to put an end to the free trading of music online but says that BT is not helping matters.
		"BT is trying to create business links with the music industry at the same time as being completely intransigent to the issues of piracy," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/2851331.stm (538 words)

	Software Mines Internet To Identify Music Piracy -- Piracy -- InformationWeek
		But as the move to digital music accelerates and opens new channels, the industry must work in nontraditional formats to find the slightest variation in song titles and artist names as part of copyright compliance.
		Music download sites, such as Loudeye, which Nokia acquired this week for $60 million, sends EMI a file of roughly 5 million song titles to match against the music labels master file, for example.
		It is the latest in a string of lawsuits the music industry has filed in an attempt to slow Internet piracy since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that content companies can take legal action against technology firms that encourage copyright infringement.
	www.informationweek.com /internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191900940 (674 words)

	Muzzling music piracy
		n a move to control music piracy that's resulted in a Rs 1,800 crore (Rs 18 billion) loss to the Indian music industry over the last three years, Virgin Records India and Mukta Arts Ltd have introduced copy-control compact discs for the music of Hinglish film Joggers' Park slated for a release on May 24.
		"The film's music is also likely to be bought largely by the urban audiences," he says.
		The total music market (including the pirated sector) is around Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion).
	www.rediff.com /money/2003/may/21spec1.htm (537 words)

	Hollywood Can Sue Over Movie, Music Piracy
		Hollywood and the music industry can file piracy lawsuits against technology companies caught encouraging customers to steal music and movies over the Internet, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
		The unanimous ruling is expected to have little immediate impact on consumers, though critics said it could lead companies to include digital locks to discourage illegal behavior.
		The ruling also was not expected to affect the thousands of copyright lawsuits filed already against computer users by the trade groups for Hollywood studios and the largest labels.
	www.infowars.com /articles/us/hollywood_can_sue_over_movie_music_piracy.htm (700 words)

	Is Piracy Really Killing the Music Industry?
		Various music industry trade groups claim that piracy is killing their industry, and are suing file traders and the sites they use.
		The main difference between money counterfeiting and music piracy is that nobody benefits from counterfeiting apart from the counterfeiter, while more people benefit from freely duplicated music: pirated music doesn't only eat into music sales, it can also act as an advertisement and promotional tool.
		Apple is the carrot that music labels can use to reward customers for buying their music: offering a wider selection of artists and a deeper catalog to encourage more sales.
	www.roughlydrafted.com /RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/708F20CD-E67D-45C7-AF95-3E1A6AC07C37.html (3183 words)

	Speaking of Music Piracy ....
		Unburdened by manufacturing and distribution costs, online music was supposed to usher in a new era of inexpensive, easy-to-access music for consumers.
		All five major music companies are discussing ways to boost the price of single-song downloads on hot releases -- to anywhere from $1.25 to as much as $2.49.
		The music companies are reluctant to talk openly about their wholesale-pricing strategies, but they are quick to blame the retailers for higher prices.
	www.wired.com /entertainment/music/news/2004/04/62995 (996 words)

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