Sunday 3 June 2007

RECORDED MUSIC MARKETS

AMERICAS: Music piracy costs the global industry $4.2 bn annually.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) fetchingly describe piracy as 'Old as the Barbary Coast, New as the Internet' and they are concentrating their efforts on counteracting it in all the forms in which it impacts their members. They estimate that it costs the global industry $4.2 bn annually.

The RIAA's team of internet specialists, with the assistance of a 24-hour automated webcrawler, attempts to stop internet sites that make illegal recordings available.

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