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BPI calls for tougher sentences as CD piracy soars to new high.
The BPI is calling for tougher penalties to be handed down to convicted music pirates after reporting that the number of counterfeit CDs estimated to be in circulation leapt by a massive 150% last year to 2.9m units.
The BPI's anti-piracy unit has also calculated the cost of overall music piracy rose by 40% to 20.5m [pounds sterling], based on reported music piracy levels and seizures of pirated CDs.
Anti-piracy unit director David Martin says penalties need to be strengthened to reverse the upward trend in piracy. "In terms of UK laws, penalties for offences under the copyright design and patenting laws are a maximum two years. We want to bring sentences in line with those handed down for abuse of the 1994 Trademark act -- which are 10 years," he says. "Copyright infringement should ...