According to local record companies in London to a report released this week, four said that more than one-third of the world to buy pirated CD discs are.
IFPI said that illegal CD sales of 4.6 billion dollars has become a big market, in just a few years, a number of countries the sales of legitimate CDs shrink by one third. Online digital piracy also worrying, especially in countries with higher penetration of broadband connections.
IFPI CEO John Kennedy said in a statement, the record industry against piracy because, if you do not do so, they would not survive. Annual distribution and marketing of thousands of CD's cost more than 10 billions of dollars, only to be respected in the case of copyright, all is possible.
Overall, many countries in the fight against the sale of pirated CDs has made remarkable achievements, pirated optical discs at a 5-year market growth to its lowest level. Pirated optical discs in 2004 to 1.2 billion sales. However, in 34 countries, sales of pirated discs over the genuine CD.
IFPI that Canada, South Korea, China Taiwan's digital copyright law inadequate or ineffective implementation.