For many years in between, a new CD crept up to $20 for a new release. That's too much when you're marketing to teenagers with limited funds.

The music industry now says "oh, I guess people just want the convenient digital form". Well, that's wrong too. Sales didn't take off until Apple set the price standard at 99 cents a track. It's not the format. Even convenience isn't the issue, as most people i know would rather have the physical media if the price is the same and aren't too lazy to take a trip to a store for it. And ripping is automated on most computers so even idiots can load an MP3 player from a CD.

 Reply

--

In mid-October 2007, after the IFPI let the ifpi.com domain registration lapse, ownership of the ifpi.com domain was transferred to The Pirate Bay, a pro-piracy group which claimed it received the domain from an anonymous donor.[11] The group set up a Web site under the domain titled "International Federation of Pirates Interests," a replacement backronym for IFPI. Ownership of the domain was returned to the IFPI in late November, when a WIPO arbitration panel concluded that "the Disputed Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark in which the [IFPI] has rights" and that the Pirate Bay's representative "registered and [was] using the Disputed Domain Name in bad faith" and failed to adequately rebut the IFPI's contention that he "has no rights or a legitimate interest in the Disputed Domain Name."[12]

In a separate incident, on the 18th February 2009, the Swedish ifpi.se domain was hacked by The Pirate Bay sympathiser(s). This occurred on the third day of the trial of the Pirate Bay founders in Sweden. The site was replaced with a short message directed at the Prosecutor Håkan Roswall and plaintiffs ("Warner Brothers etc"). It was signed "The New Generation".

[en.wikipedia.org]

 Reply