Music
PIRACY WAS NEVER KILLED BY STREAMING
As featured on Music Business Worldwide.
Another week, another streaming service launched. The most recent entry into the mix is Google’s YouTube, which has announced a music streaming service offering both videos and audio tracks for $9.99 month, as well as a free ad-supported option – YouTube Music. While there...
MUSO, the authority on digital piracy, and EUIPO, acting through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, have embarked on a project to assess the economic impact of digital infringement across the European Union, with MUSO providing the...
During a keynote speech at the 2017 INTA Annual Meeting, Iñigo Mendez de Vigo, Spain’s minister for education, culture, and sport, told the audience that Spain will raise “an anti-piracy generation” as part of its pledge to tackle intellectual property infringement.
52% of all visits to music piracy sites in 2016 were through mobile devices From January 2016 to December 2016, 13.8bn visits to websites were to stream pirated content, 59% of this piracy activity was via mobile devices. Stream ripper sites have surpassed downloading to...