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"Home Taping is Killing Music" was the slogan of a 1980s anti- Piracy campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a British music industry trade group. With the rise in Cassette Recorder popularity, the BPI feared that home taping would cause a decline in record sales. The logo, consisting of a Skull And Crossbones formed from the silhouette of a Cassette , also included the words '''And it's illegal'''. logo featuring the tape and bones.]] The slogan was often Parodied , one example being the addendum ''and it's about time too!'', used by Dutch Anarcho-punk band The Ex . In 1981 the Dead Kennedys printed "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank so you can help" on one side of '' In God We Trust, Inc. '' More recently, the pro- P2p File Sharing group Downhill Battle has used the slogan "Home Taping is Killing the Music Industry, And It's Fun" on T-shirts, and the BitTorrent website ''ThePirateBay.org'' uses the logo of a pirate ship whose sails bear the "tape and bones." {Link without Title} Similar rhetoric has continued; in 1982 Jack Valenti famously argued that the VCR would ruin the American film industry, and in 2005 Mitch Bainwol of the RIAA claimed that CD Burning is hurting music sales. "Home Taping's Killing Music" is also the title of a short song by Misty's Big Adventure , a band from Birmingham , which takes the implications of this slogan to their illogical conclusion. EXTERNAL LINKS
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