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A new front in the battle against music pirates is being opened by the IFPI and RIAA, which is supplying almost 1,000 CD plants in 70 countries with two new guides designed to reduce their exposure to piracy.

The six-page IFPI's Good Business Practices manual provides disc plants with a 19-point list of "indicators", which should tip them off that they are being asked to manufacture pirate material. These include live concert recordings, recordings marked "for DJ use only", misspellings of artist names or titles and orders paid for in cash.

The guide also gives an 11-step guideline that it recommends plants should implement as "a minimum" to help them identify and reject orders for pirate material. The emphasis of the guideline is on stringent checking of orders and ensuring customers provide the correct documentation to prove they have the right to manufacture the music. Included in the checklist are the recommendations that music plants carry out their own checks on ...

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