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Mungo Jerry frontman hopes new anti-piracy tech stops artists losing out - Ray Dorset says band lost £23m in royalties but suggests fingerprinting software could help musicians


Ray Dorset says band lost £23m in royalties but suggests fingerprinting software could help musicians

He had a day job as a technician and designer at Timex watches when he found success in the music business, turning him overnight from a semi-professional musician to an international star, selling 30m copies. There are millions of songs and billions of pieces of digital data to monitor but the software can track music across the world, in real time, and uncover potential theft through AI and human duplication. Niki Haywood, its co-head of content protection, said: “Intellectual property crime is a huge black hole for the UK, sucking in some £13bn from the legal economy, and making it the second only to drugs as the most profitable form of criminality.

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