The BPI launched its latest research as the International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry and other trade bodies around the world stepped up their campaign against online music piracy, with another 2000 lawsuits against individuals and a new campaign warning parents to monitor their children's online activities.
The global trade body announced details of various measures being taken to curb online piracy. A number of anti-piracy raids in Italy have led to the seizure of 70 computers containing 30 terabytes (that's a lot) of shared music. In Denmark there are moves to cut off the internet access of thousands of illegal file sharers, based on moves in France where illegal downloaders have already been cut off by their ISPs. Meanwhile the music industry has launched anti-filesharing lawsuits in Portugal for the first time. Other lawsuits were launched in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, Iceland, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland, bringing the total number of anti-P2P lawsuits outside the US to about 5500.
The trade body used the new round of legal action to republicise the literature it has previously published that warns parents of the legal risks they run by allowing their children to illegally share music on their PCs.