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The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up That bombshell comes courtesy of the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), the UK's fluffier version of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). A further revelation from the BPI was that... [28 Mar 2008]
UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown
News More people than ever are able to illegally swap their music collections because BitTorrent clients are now so easy to use, said Jollyon Benn, internet investigations executive for the BPI (British Recorded Music... [27 Mar 2008]
ISPs renounce music tariffs
News On Monday, UK music industry body the BPI called on ISPs Cable & Wireless and Tiscali to "pull the plug" on accounts used for illegal file-sharing. Internet companies have slammed calls for a tariff that would mean they... [14 Jul 2006]
UK music industry to sue AllofMP3.com
News UK music industry body the BPI is to sue popular Russian download site AllofMP3.com, claiming it is operating outside the law and not sharing any of its profits with the artists whose music it sells. Not so, says the... [07 Jun 2006]
UK record industry wins landmark file-sharing case
News In the first case, a man from King's Lynn was ordered to stop file-sharing illegally and told to make an immediate payment to the BPI of £5,000. The High Court rejected the man's defence that the BPI had... [27 Jan 2006]
Radioactive: Crazy Frog's legacy - it's boomtime for ringtones
Comment According to the BPI, CD singles sales in the UK dropped 19.1 per cent to only 21.4 million units in 2005. Fortunately for the music establishment, much of this slack has been taken up by the growth in legal music... [16 Jan 2006]
iTunes scores 80 per cent of UK downloads
News Although Apple didn't put figures on the number of songs sold in Blighty - it incorporates them into its international figures - recent statistics from music industry body the BPI said 13 million tracks have been sold in... [08 Sep 2005]
Illegal downloading 'costs UK £650m'
News UK record industry trade body the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) has announced it has won a court order to force ISPs to reveal the identities of 33 suspected file-sharers. Five ISPs will now have days to turn over... [20 Apr 2005]
Music mad Brits buy nine million online tunes
News Brits are proving to be the most music-loving nation - buying more albums than any other country - and we just can't get enough of digital formats, according to UK music industry trade body the BPI. During 2004, single... [23 Mar 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Digital music and DRM
News As well as Ballmer's tongue-lashing, UK music pirates got a telling-off from the record industry trade body, the BPI. Twenty-eight of the most prolific uploaders in the UK were collared by the BPI in... [17 Dec 2004]
Leader: File-sharing suits out of tune with music market
Leader So the news today that industry body The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is suing 28 file-sharers comes as no surprise. While the rights and wrongs are pretty clear-cut in the law's eyes - it's illegal; if you do it,... [07 Oct 2004]
Piracy fears sidelined as Brits rediscover love for the CD
News Trade association the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has discovered that sales of CD singles have shown their first rise in five years, while albums are also showing some upward movement. The BPI is... [23 Aug 2004]
Napster gives free downloads to Sun readers
News According to figures from the UK record industry association, the BPI, last year music piracy rose by 13 per cent, while legitimate music sales rose by just over two per cent. The BPI puts the rise down... [22 Jul 2004]
Music downloads get their very own pop chart
News The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has announced it will be running a chart of the most popular downloads from 1 September with numbers gleaned from song-shop staples such as iTunes,... [29 Jun 2004]
Leader: Should the UK music industry take the legal high ground?
Leader Andrew Yeates, director general of the BPI, has warned that legal action may be the only option left for a beleaguered record industry. Many believe file-sharing and music downloads have little to do... [14 Jan 2004]
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