Music piracy is still at a high level
The music industry scored a hollow victory against the world’s largest music piracy website last month, a report warns on Thursday.
Just weeks after a Swedish court found the four men behind the Pirate Bay guilty of promoting copyright infringement, illegal file-sharing is rampant as ever, according to PRS for Music, which collects royalties for UK songwriters and publishers.
“The Pirate Bay trial has done nothing to discourage file sharing,” said Will Page, chief economist at PRS for Music. According to a new report for PRS by Big Champagne, a research group, the number of PCs using one or more peer-to-peer applications has risen from 184m in June 2006 to 202m in June 2008.
