bpi in comment and analysis
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, you're likely to get into... [07 Oct 2004]
Leader: 'Grey import' row smacks of desperation
Leader The BPI is already investigating CD Wow and Play.com and its attempt to now finger Amazon for supposedly undercutting exorbitant UK prices with cheap imports smacks just a little of desperation. What is the BPI's next move? [09 Jan 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.07.04
Round-Up The BPI is particularly grateful to government at this critical time for the interest and understanding it is increasingly showing in the industry's challenge to embrace new technology and new business models. [16 Jul 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.06.05
Round-Up In fact, 90 per cent of the people the organisation is going after are under the age of 18, according to the BPI, which must be glowing with pride at that fact. A spokesman for the BPI said: "We don't do any screening for political correctness. [24 Jun 2005]
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 more people than ever are able to swap their... [28 Mar 2008]
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. In business you have to make unpopular decisions, that's a given, but nobody has actively courted negative press... [14 Jan 2004]
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. It was a bumper year for the UK ringtone market. But, asks Futurity Media's Anthony Plewes, will ringtones remain a lucrative revenue stream... [16 Jan 2006]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment The increasing use of media will place additional demands on IT infrastructures," says Neville Chamberlain, managing director of BPI Improve, a UK-based media operations consultancy. Experts argue new media will spell the demise of the IT... [29 Nov 2007]
Leader: Corporate file-sharing time bomb is ticking
Leader The RIAA and even the UK's own BPI are warning of a wider clampdown on illegal file-sharers - something that has been made more likely by the EU passing the new copyright and IP directive last week. It's nothing that hasn't been said before but yet... [16 Mar 2004]
Music piracy fight - coming to an office near you
Comment The individuals are to blame but the RIAA and BPI realise there is little chance of ever prosecuting individuals. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has written a threatening letter to 300 companies whose employees are downloading... [18 Mar 2003]
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