Thread: Kindle e-Book piracy accelerates - from CNET
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Old 02-23-2011, 10:29 PM   #118
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
Quite a few high profile music piracy websites were taken down last year, and the music industry have been going after mp3 blogs and cyberlockers quite aggressively too....
Well, last I checked they've been "aggressive" for years now. In fact, in the US they're less aggro than in the past; the peak was in 2005, when the RIAA was suing ordinary citizens. They stopped that in 2008, so by 2009 the number of copyright lawsuits was back at their 2004 levels.

Feel free to chew on these for awhile.
2010: http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2010.pdf
2011: http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2011.pdf

Much of it discusses legit services, and has a section on piracy. It includes references to multiple studies that indicate that "free" is a top reason why people go to P2P sources; that nations like Spain with lax IP enforcement have high piracy rates; that Sweden enacted a tough IP law (IPRED), and the following year music revenues rose for the first time in years.
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