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New BPI Report Shows Illegal Downloading

Remains Serious Threat to Britain's Digital Music

Future, 16 December 2010

The UK‟s digital music market continues to expand, but record levels of illegal

downloading present a serious threat to the country‟s online music future, confirms a

major new report

– Digital Music Nation 2010

– published by recording industry trade

body the BPI today.

The report, featuring new research from both Harris Interactive and UKOM/Nielsen, for

the first time provides a comprehensive picture of the legal and illegal digital music

landscape in the UK.

The UK is one of the world‟s most advanced digital music markets.

With 67 legal

services, the UK offers music fans unprecedented choice over how to access their

favourite bands online and awareness of digital music offerings is at an all-time high.

Around a quarter of record industry revenues now come from digital.

But while the UK digital music market has expanded, widespread illegal downloading

means it is growing much more slowly than it ought to be.

The lack of action against

illegal downloading continues to undermine the potential for the digital music sector to

expand, eroding value for investors, discouraging innovation and harming Britain‟s

musical culture.

These effects are now felt right across the UK‟s creative industries.

In 2010, illegal music downloading continues to rise in the UK.

The number of people

using peer-to-peer software to download music has remained steady, while the use of

non-P2P channels such as cyberlockers and MP3 pay sites is rising alarmingly.

More

than three-quarters of the music downloaded in the UK is illegally obtained, with no

payment to the musicians and songwriters or music companies who invest in them.

The range and variety of services in the UK‟s innovative legal music market is

encouraging some migration away from piracy.

But in the absence of any effective

deterrent, it is unsurprising that overall, illegal downloading continues to rise.

This

confirms the need for the urgent implementation of the Digital Economy Act, alongside

industry initiatives that continue to raise awareness of legal services and the value of

music.