More news from the IFPI today, the organistation has urged Taiwan to crack down on the blank CDs fueling the booming global trade in pirated music. In general the IFPI wants the Taiwanese manufacturers and government to cooperate, but for now the companies and authorities don't seem to be willing.
It is calling on governments to tighten copyright laws and get the makers of CD-Rs to be licensed and print a unique tracking code on each disc they make. |
Berman wants Taiwan to take action now over the blank CDs that have become a tool for pirates around the world.
"We have had seizures in Latin America of CD-Rs produced in Taiwan. We have had major raids in Spain, the Netherlands, all over the world," he told Reuters in an interview.
"We are taking the IFPI board to Taiwan in the fall as we regard it as a very, very serious problem. It is fuelling piracy," he said on a visit to Brussels for the IFPI record industry awards.
He said: "We need the Taiwanese to address the fact that so much of this is finding its way into the pirate market. We are talking serious hundreds of millions here."
Source: Yahoo.com
