[Infowarrior] - IFPI: Piracy Bad!!! Government Must Fix Because We Don't Want To Adapt

[Richard Forno]

IFPI: Piracy Bad!!! Government Must Fix Because We Don't Want To Adapt
!from the wake-up-folks dept
It's that time of the year when the IFPI comes out with its annual  
fear-mongering report, and this year's has really gone overboard into  
the ridiculous. The basics are pretty much what you'd expect ("piracy  
bad! industry dying! governments must break everything to protect  
us!"). However, the details are just downright laughable.  The entire  
report seems premised on the idea that direct music sales is the only  
thing that really matters (a blatant confusion about the difference  
between the recording industry (which the IFPI represents) and the  
music industry (which the IFPI pretends to represent). You can read  
the entire report below, but we'll go through some of the lowlights:

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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100121/0825147855.shtml