File-sharing 'not cut by courts'
Found on News BBC on Thursday, 19 January 2006
Global court action against music file-sharers has not reduced illegal downloading, an industry report says.
The level of file-sharing has remained the same for two years despite 20,000 legal cases in 17 countries.
Music piracy could be "dramatically reduced within a very short period of time" if ISPs took action against their law-breaking customers, Mr Kennedy said.
And Mr Kennedy backed the continuing use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, which controls what consumers can do with their music once it has been purchased - either online or on CD.
Mr Kennedy, writing in the report, said DRM "helps get music to consumers in new and flexible ways".
"I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nice to see P2P is still up and running. But mp3 downloads? Who wants to listen to all the "great new music"? Not me, thanks. Perhaps when quality goes back into music. Into mainstream music. Indie artists are usually way more open to P2P and use it. And I don't even want to talk about DRM; most people still remember the Sony incident or the details of the broadcast flag.