By: MarkJ - 23 February, 2009 (2:11 PM)
The chief executive of
EMI Music, Elio Leoni-Sceti, has called on UK ISP to clamp down on consumers that abuse their services for the purpose of downloading illegal music. Leoni-Sceti goes on to liken Britain’s broadband infrastructure to being like a leaky pipe.
EMI's research suggests that 20% of Britain's £1.3bn music industry comes from digital sources, which increases to 70% by volume consumed; 90% is believed to be illegal. Happily the 10% of digital music bought legally is growing at twice the rate of illegal downloads:
“
Internet service providers play a significant role because they own the pipe,” he told the
Sunday Times. “
In England we know there is a lot of water and content filtering wastefully through the pipes across the country. The pipe owner has a responsibility to close the holes.”
However he does praise Lord Carters Digital Britain report, which recommended enforcing a national scheme of sending piracy warning letters to suspected abusers, as being an "
encouraging sign".
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