It's mostly legal news these days, here's another item. Again it are our friends of the RIAA that are in the news. They have seized 133% more CD's during this half year of 2001 then in the year 2000.
The total amount of seized CD's now exceeding the 1.2 million. They also raid 34 manufacturing centers, resulting in seizures of 604 CD-R burners.
Beefed-up education and training efforts for consumers and labels, vigorous government lobbying by RIAA president Hilary Rosen and increased cooperation with federal and regional law enforcement groups contributed to the upswing, the association said. |
``We recognize that in order to keep up with the expanding CD-R piracy problem, we need to work hand in hand with those charged with enforcing intellectual property laws and those hurt most by sound recording piracy,'' said RIAA anti-piracy czar Frank Creighton.
It's far more difficult to determine whether the increase in seizures and arrests accompanied a corresponding jump in the amount of illegal merchandise that made it to market. The RIAA has not been able to quantify the number of pirated discs that slip into the marketplace.
The trade group also increased its efforts at shutting down piracy in cyberspace. In addition to its continuing legal onslaught against Napster (news - web sites), Aimster and several Webcasters, the RIAA succeeded in pulling down more than 8,700 online auctions of music that it deemed illegal -- a fourfold increase over last year.
Source: Yahoo.com
