RIAA agrees that CD Recordable is a problem for music industry

RIAA agrees that CD Recordable is a problem for music industry

RIAA and MPAA are the two authorities in the United States, which have pursued ever peer-to-peer technology in their aim to limit the piracy of digital content. However, they have somewhat ignored the more apparent mode of sharing the digital content which also includes piracy which is the CD recordable media. Reports claim that Music copied onto blank recordable CDs is becoming a bigger threat to the bottom line of record stores and music labels than online file sharing.

Mitch Bainwol, chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America said in a statement quoting the facts: “”Burned” CDs accounted for 29 per cent of all recorded music obtained by fans in 2004, compared to 16 per cent attributed to download from online file-sharing networks.” The data was compiled by the market research firm NPD Group that claimed that about half of all recordings obtained by music fans in 2004 were due to authorized CD sales and about 4 percent from paid music downloads.

RIAA believes that copy protection and Digital Rights Management is the way to go to prevent piracy through CD-Recordable media. Bainwol said that copy protection technology is an answer to the problem that clearly the marketplace is going to see more of. Sales of albums in the form of CDs and Music cassettes are falling gradually and newer techniques are being developed to stop this form of piracy. However, consumer piracy groups continue to claim that users have the right to keep a backup of the digital content they purchase on CDs and as a result, DRM and Copy Protection harms them.