Back to combating online piracy for a paragraph or two, and the German Music Publishers Association has called on their country's government to act on file-sharing, arguing Germany is behind other key European countries in developing measures to stop internet piracy, most likely by forcing the internet service providers to play a more proactive role.
The other European country they'd most like their politicians to follow is, of course, France, who are in the process of putting in place the much talked about three-strike system which will see serial file-sharers who fail to heed official warnings lose their internet access.
According to Billboard, at the Association's annual conference the trade body's president Dagmar Sikorski praised the French for "combating the illicit use of music by taking a series of measures ranging from the issue of warnings through to a ban on internet access", and urged his own country's politicians to act sooner rather than later because "Germany is on course towards becoming a land of paradise for internet piracy".