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79% more pirated CD-Rs seized in 2000
Posted on 10/05/01 22:54 by Maikel T
In their war against piracy the RIAA send warning notices to over 10,000 websites that where violating copyrights.
The number of pirate CD-Rs seized in 2000 rose by 79% to nearly 1.7 million, according to year-end figures released Wednesday by the Recording Industry Assn. of America. The music industry trade group also said 633 CD-R burners had been seized over the course of the year, with a manufacturing capacity of more than 9.5 million counterfeit discs annually, representing a potential loss of $150 million in revenues to the music business. But it wasn't entirely clear to industry watchers whether the increase in seizures implied the industry organization was winning the war against music piracy. ``It totally reminds me of the war on drugs,'' said Lee Black, research director for entertainment research firm Webnoize. ``Don't think you're going to stop it as long as there's demand and money to be made.'' |
CD-Rs and Drugs have many similarities ;-)
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Guest,
Thursday 10 May 2001 23:04
Yeah, lets get high on CDRs :7. The difference is that CDRs are much much cheaper and safer :4.
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Guest,
Thursday 10 May 2001 23:13
have u tried to roll up a verbatim recently?
"""633 CD-R burners had been seized over the course of the year, with a manufacturing capacity of more than 9.5 million counterfeit discs annually"""
based on what? that the CDR drives are burning 24/7 ??
And perhaps the number of seized CD-Rs rose by 79% but piracy rose by (for example) 200%.. so who's winning then...By
Guest,
Friday 11 May 2001 11:39
Hilarious. Drugs, CDRs and Sex.. :9.
Anyway, if they say:
"potential loss of $150 million in revenues to the music business"
then wouldn't they prevent this in the first place if they had sold music CDs at lower prices ?
Come on, this would mean that a lot of people would actually part their money if prices are cheap. They wouldn't have made those revenues anyways ??? So they didn't really lose anything ? Am I right ?
yes but piracy has gone up by 1400% (in the UK) so actually 79% isn't very impressive really
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