No decrease in illegal downloading, says BPI
 

Will this ever end !!!

The number of people downloading music illegally is not decreasing, despite the availability of new legal services, according to a music industry research.

A survey for The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) revealed one in three consumers are using illegal sites.

BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said the findings were "disappointing" and expressed concern at a rise in illegal downloads from blogs and newsgroups.

More than 3,000 people aged between 16 and 54 took part in the online poll.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8420484.stm

What I find funny is that there are huge media corporations providing facilities for the downloaders to get music without having to pay for it. It's not helping the cause :)

One company I'm thinking of has "30 million active users", with the ability to get the free downloads any time they want.

I reckon they should try and close those avenues too :)

Kids from the hood not spending no money to pay to download stuff, when cousin Leroy has the cd

Hey those free download sites make a lot of affiliate money off of some people that post here so I doubt you'll get much of a response

well no shit

Good, maybe record labels and music industry will wake up. They have been raping the artists and consumers for years. Their days of trying to sell albums for $15-20 a pop is bullshit and is coming to an end.

Bands don't see a dime from record sales anyway. It all goes to the record label and the suits. If you know anyone in a band, ask em. All their money comes from ticket sales & the swag they sell at the shows/online.

You want to help a band you like? Buying their CD won't put a penny in their pocket. Go to one of their concerts and buy a shirt.

Fuck major record labels.

i think is decreasing

That prove it's not about price and technology, but morality.

creating scarcity where there is none is the real immorality.

There is no way this will ever slow, its only going to get worse. You don't even need a P2P program just type in "Artist + rapidshare" and you'll have a link to download everything in seconds. People would download a car for free if they could. Pirates will always pillage.

It's the same as in porn; why pay for a shitty CD if there is anything for free on the net?
They'll have to adapt too and i don't talk about a fucking copy protection...

It's never going to stop, nor should it, nor should you think it would.

People, industries, labels, etc. need to evolve with the changing times or get left behind. Period.

BPI isn't exactly a meeting of the most brilliant brains in the world. Taylor ranks between the dumbest lawyers in history

1 in 3, fuck that, 1 in 2 probably all of the people in this thread have downloaded illegally once or twice if not all the time. It's not fucking going anywhere obviously. I used to pirate hiphop mixtapes and albums years ago in like 2002 with userv off my own computer and roadrunner internet connection, AND accepted donations which I got quiet often. Nothing happened to me, it's not going to go away, how could anyone think something like this could be stopped? Wow..

There was a thread with members here (myself included) who mentioned that they downloaded the wolverine movie when the workprint version was leaked.

That workprint sucked balls. Watching it ruined a movie for me that probably would have been awesome in theater. Anyone who watched it screwed themselves anyways.