Lasse Penttinen
5 Feb 2003 12:58
This coin certainly has two sides. According to the source several copyright owner organizations (BSA, IFPI, MPA, etc.) aren't satisfied with the EUCD either. So the producers aren't happy and the consumers arent happy, but naturally for the opposite reasons.
The group said that last week's new piracy-fighting proposal from the European Commission is "inadequate in view of the magnitude of the piracy problem and fails to introduce urgently needed measures to hold back the epidemic of counterfeiting." The group claims that in Europe, film, video, music, business and leisure software industries alone suffer losses in excess of EUR4.5 billion annually due to piracy.
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