Article from Yahoo! News:
Sales of bootlegged music grew by nearly 50 percent worldwide last year, an industry group said on Tuesday, as pirates seized on a new recordable-CD format to churn out 1.9 million illegally duplicated units in 2001.
While the U.S. music industry worries most about lost sales from individuals downloading songs from the Internet, there is a bigger threat globally from unauthorized copying of CDs and cassettes, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or IFPI.