IFPI CEO: Governmental support has helped in fight aginst piracy

(October 6, 2011) – IFPI CEO Frances Moore has said that a growing understanding of the issues surrounding music piracy in Government across the world has led to increased support in the organisations battle against illegal downloading.

Speaking to Fiscal Police National Academy in Italy on Monday, Moore said that piracy has had a devastating impact on sales of music noting that out of every 20 music tracks downloaded online, only one is done so legitimately and adding that studies carried out by Tera Consultancy, found that up to 1.2 million jobs could be lost across Europe if nothing was done to combat it.

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