Illegal downloads increase in the US
16 January 2004
Analysts in the US have found the number of people illegally downloading copyrighted music from the net has started to rise again after a six month slump.
The previous fall in downloads is thought to be due to music industry lawsuits, but now market researchers have seen the number of households downloading rising by six per cent in October and seven per cent in November.
Russ Cuprick vice president of the market research group NPD said the survey may be showing a seasonal rise, giving the number of popular albums released at Christmas time.
So far 380 copyright infringement lawsuits have been launched since September by the Recording Industry Association of America, according to the BBC.
RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy stating that many lawsuits against downloaders were being prepared, told the BBC: 'For us, the ultimate measurement of success has been, and continues to be, creating an environment where legal online music services can flourish.
'All indicators point in the right direction - sales of CDs, legal downloads and awareness that file sharing copyrighted music is illegal - have all increased.'
Elsewhere, other research has found Hong Kong to have the world record for the number of songs illegally downloaded - 130 million in the last two and a half years.
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