Anti-Piracy Campaign

EDM number 1083 in 1992-93, proposed by Geoffrey Hoon on 15/12/1992.

That this House notes with concern the recent increase in the counterfeiting of Top 75 tapes; observes that pirates are likely to make an estimated ú6 million a year from selling illegal, poor quality counterfeit tapes; further notes that piracy is a totally illegal trade which has a devastasting effect on the livelihoods of all artists and performers, many of whom depend on royalties as their principal source of income; and as a result welcomes the Let's Stamp Out Piracy campaign led by Music Week magazine, the British Association of Record Dealers and the British Phonographic Industry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs.