Kennedy adds voice to Spain anti-piracy push

June 20, 2008 Two leading lights in the European fight against digital piracy and illegal P2P file-sharing have thrown their support behind a new Spanish music and movie business campaign to end Spain's black image as the worst piracy offender among the top 10-ranked global markets. Speaking at a Madrid seminar Thursday, IFPI chairman John Kennedy and French government adviser on digital piracy Dennis Olivennes both said they were confident that Internet service providers and telecom companies would eventually agree to a "legal model," and that the Madrid government will establish a legislative framework to impose an effective ban on digital piracy. "Sarkozy said the Internet must not be a high-tech Wild West, but he said it for the French music and film industries, not for John Kennedy and the IFPI," Kennedy said.

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