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IFPI Belgi, the dome organization of the music industry, is totally against the idea of Spirit the legalisering of musicdownloads to compensate with a higher collection on blank cd's. In an open letter is called up to lead action against the proposal.

The proposal of the political party just had been meant a compromise to offer in which as source recordsfirma's as internet users that illegal music download self would can find. Nothing is less where: on forums, among many on socraweb, is the disapproval through surfers particularly large. That viewpoint is proclaimed otherwise centering by PUB, the organization of Telenet-users. With the open letter also the music industry shows self an adversary, they it naturally other reasons.

The core of the Spirit-proposal consisted compensating measures of two, each other. The downloading of auteursrightelijk protected music from the illegality to get, becomes the downloading and do not offer of music on the Internet longer bans. recordsfirma's walk miss through that earnings and must come therefore there at the same time an extra collection of 2 Euros on blank cd-R' s. The money that comes in that way, becomes doorgesluisd to the music industry. The proof balloon of Spirit encompass beside it also an excommunication on protected cd's and a collection on particular raise hardware.

Where PUB especially problems has with the considerable rise in prices of blank cd's and hardware, makes IFPI about whole the Spirit-proposal with the ground equal. “The explanation of Spirit about the legalizing of the illegal alien download or copy misses a legal, economic, practical, technological and social ground”, catches the open letter on.

IPFI doubts that the legalizing of the downloading of music source can, because laws about copyrights often internationally arranged are. Belgi cannot deviate of this easy. The collections of 2 Euros find they in any case insufficient grade: “On a cd-R can about 12 albums copiedbecome. The proposed compensation of Spirit comes then down on yet no 17 euro penny per copiedalbum.” A price increase of cd-R' s in our country besides little sense has, means the organization. Belgians will buy then really normally their disks in the foreign country.

The dome organization means that the proposal suspected many on “pre-electoraal populisme” appears, and fully wrong positions sit. Spirit criticizes among many the much too high price of music-cd' s. of that is nothing on, says IFPI; actual will music-cd' s even much more must expenses. “Bill holding with the inflation will that 20 Euros it today 40 are. The average consumers prices for 2002 was approximately 12 Euros. The prices are strengthen gone down thus.”