London, 26th July 2010 – A pirate music dealer was ordered today to hand over £100,000 in payment to the record companies she ripped off by running an organised crime gang and illegal trading empire. 

Stockholm, 4th February 2010 - Police raided locations across Sweden on Tuesday, arresting four individuals accused of infringing copyright law by operating Direct Connect (DC) hubs. Officers suspect the hubs were used to allow users access to hundreds of thousands of copyright infringing music files.

· Global digital music trade revenues reach US$4.2 billion, up 12% in 2009
· 400 services licensed worldwide by music companies with ISPs, mobile and other partners
· New figures show local music collapsing in major markets as piracy bites into releases, sales and investment in France, Spain and Brazil
· IFPI Digital Music Report highlights urgent need for legislation to curb digital piracy on ISP networks

London, 21 January 2010 - More than a quarter of all recorded music industry revenues worldwide are now coming from digital channels, as music companies license music in partnership with ISPs and mobile operators, subscription services, streaming sites and hundreds of download stores.
However, despite the continuing growth of the digital music business – with trade revenues up 12% to an estimated US$4.2 billion in 2009 – illegal file-sharing and other forms of online piracy are eroding investment and sales of local music in major markets.

-  Judge orders gang to hand over proceeds of crime to music companies
-  Illegal operation had seen imported pirate CDs from the Czech Republic sold at market stalls and record stores across London and the South East of England

London, 8th December 2009 - A Crown Court judge has confiscated £70,000 profit accrued by pirate CD traders and made a compensation order in favour of the music companies whose repertoire was being sold illegally.

London, 28th September 2009 – Jeremy Banks has been promoted to the newly-created position of Director, Anti-Piracy at IFPI. Banks, who has headed the organisation's internet anti-piracy unit for several years, will oversee all of IFPI's London anti-piracy activities. The appointment for the first time brings IFPI's London internet and physical enforcement anti-piracy operations into a single management structure.

IFPI also calls on the European Commission to strengthen the EU legislative framework

20thJuly 2009

Spanish police have conducted a major operation against bars using unlicensed video jukeboxes in the region of Extremadura.  It is believed the illegal jukeboxes had generated around one million euro in revenue for their supplier.