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<blockquote data-quote="The Feedster" data-source="post: 535652" data-attributes="member: 259515"><p><img src="http://mos.techradar.com//classifications/computing/internet-and-broadband/images/apple-itunes-plus-2007-10-price-cut-200-200.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Members of the UK's music industry and press have spoken out against the BPI's plans to send 'hundreds of thousands' of warning letters to those downloading music illegally.</p><p></p><p>"There's clearly a massive problem with piracy, but you cannot put the genie back in the bottle," NME news editor Paul Stokes told TechRadar.</p><p></p><p><strong>Like 2002 never ended</strong></p><p></p><p>Stokes feels that the BPI's current initiative is a throwback to similar attempts to crack down on online piracy seven years ago.</p><p></p><p>"It's basically 2002 all over again," Stokes said. "It's an attempt to try to criminalise their market, just because there's a generation now that won't listen to music without being able to hear it first.</p><p></p><p>"It's just a shame that they [the BPI] are barking up this tree again, they need to engage with fans that are doing this [illegally downloading music] and try to bring them back in the fold."</p><p></p><p>"The BPI is acting like a headmaster telling off a naughty pupil!"</p><p></p><p><strong>New revenue streams</strong></p><p></p><p>Stokes feels that the BPI should be looking towards developing new ways of monetising music online, citing initiatives such as such as Radiohead's honesty-box trial and the "360-degree deals that some of the majors are currently looking at."</p><p></p><p>Joe Wilson, Director of Studies at the University of Gloucestershire's Department of Popular Music concurs with this position.</p><p></p><p>"The BPI initiative is basically the music industry trying to throw its weight around, using people like Carphone Warehouse to do their work for them," Wilson told TechRadar.</p><p></p><p>"Really what they should be doing is investing in new revenue streams in order to promote new music. Specifically, the creation of new copyrightable works, as opposed to this over-reliance on old dinosaurs' back catalogues."</p><p></p><p><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/8513/s/18410c3/mf.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.techradar.com/431389&link=Exclusive: Music press slams BPI" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.techradar.com/431389&link=Exclusive: Music press slams BPI" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13833610563/f/8513/c/669/s/25432259/a2.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13833610563/f/8513/c/669/s/25432259/a2.img" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/8513/s/18410c3/story01.htm" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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