All this online sharing has to stop

IFPI
- The IFPI is the International Federation of Phonographic Industries it is the global music industry organisation whose very name tells you how long ago progress overtook it.
- They said the spread of unlicensed music on ISP networks is choking revenues to record companies and investment in artists, despite a healthy increase in digital sales in 2007, up approximately 40% on the previous year.
- 80% of ISP traffic comprises distribution of copyright infringing files.

Article sharing
- People are "copy-and-pasting" entire articles from online newspapers to blog sites or to their own computer and they don't pay a thing. Then they read them or "share" them with other people who they might not even have met.
- In the past 10 years, hundreds - probably thousands - of journalists have been thrown out of jobs as newspapers and magazines have downsized.
- 80% of ISP traffic comprises distribution of copyright-infringing files
- Unlicensed pornography trading has put paid to some of the best-known names in the industry. Name any porn magazine that isn't 75% thinner now and filled with ads in the back for internet sites.

Crime through internet
- In 2000 was revealed to be reeling from an assault by grandmothers and others sending each other needlepoint patterns via email.