Music industry failing to promote legal alternatives to piracy

By Urmee Khan, Digital and Media Correspondent 730AM GMT 08 March 2010

Almost 10 million copies of Lady Gaga?s singular Poker Face were downloaded last year

Nine out of ten consumers that are wakeful of song services, have usually listened of dual determined brands iTunes and Amazon, according to the research.

Consumer Focus, the Government-backed watchdog, sees the expansion of the authorised online song marketplace as the most appropriate approach to plunge into online copyright infringement, but it claims that the song industry is unwell to foster the most authorised alternatives.

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The consumer physique surveyed 1995 adults and found that 4 in ten people are incompetent to name a singular online song use at all notwithstanding there being over twenty services on the market.

Consumer Focus has called for an all you can eat song intrigue so internet users can suffer unlimited, authorised song downloads for a small one some-more monthly fee.

Jill Johnstone, International Director, Consumer Focus, pronounced "The song industry is sharpened itself in the feet by not compelling authorised online song services. If jot down pity is causing the repairs the song industry claims, because arent they putting some-more bid in to compelling the authorised alternatives?

"Before we go down the coercion highway it is usually satisfactory to ask the song industry to do some-more to have people wakeful of the authorised options."

The IFPI, the traffic physique that represents the recording industry, estimates than 95 per cent of downloaded song last year was not paid for.

The Governments Digital Economy Bill, not nonetheless law, contains measures to undo determined offenders by a routine of graduated warnings.

The consumer physique has additionally called for remodel of UKs copyright chartering complement to have it simpler for online song services to indicate copyrighted functions to consumers legally.

They explain that remodel would inspire the expansion of some-more authorised alternatives such as streaming, "all you can eat", micropayment, announcement or subscription formed models.

The song industry pronounced it was a "fallacy" to indicate that recognition of authorised song services is low.

Geoff Taylor, the arch senior manager of the BPI, the jot down industry traffic body, pronounced "Its only not convincing to indicate that people who are downloading illegally havent listened of iTunes, Amazon or alternative authorised song services.

"Our most larger, some-more new and targeted online consult shows that recognition of authorised song services between internet users is roughly universal. The measures in the Digital Economy Bill are precisely what is indispensable to inspire bootleg downloaders to move opposite to those authorised services".