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:


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".