January 22nd, 2010 
Kathy McGraw Ars Technica reports that the IFPI, a music industry group has released its annual report in which it likens copyright infringement with climate change and as such calls on governments around the World to legislate against it.
The report notes that physical CD sales continue to drop and attributes all of this to piracy, even as it admits that digital music sales went up in 2009. It also failed to mention, as reported here, that file sharers are more likely to purchase digital music and will spend more money on digital music subscription services than non-file sharers.
The IFPI wants governments to enact legislation similar to the three strikes law that will soon go into effect in France. This law will create a new agency known as HADOPI which will monitor alleged file sharing activities and will cut off access to the Internet for repeat offenders.
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