[x-pubpol] Financial steps to beat online music piracy

[Joly MacFie]

http://louderthanwar.com/blogs/further-steps-to-beat-online-music-piracy

Earlier this week it was announced that a working agreement has been struck
between *The City of London Police*, *PayPal*, and the *IFPI*
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The agreement follows an announcement in March 2011 that payment providers
MasterCard and Visa would withdraw their services from (mp3) sites. The
sites, many of which are based in Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine responded
to this by switching payment to PayPal – this latest agreement should
curtail that. In practice the City of London Police will provide PayPal with
evidence of sites offering copyright infringing music, who in turn will
withdraw their services.

PayPal, MasterCard and Visa have further tightened up their regulations –
any site offering music for download will now have to produce evidence of
appropriate regional licenses to offer music; if no licence is produced they
withdraw their service, thereby cutting off the revenue chain.

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