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"Music was too important to me to let piracy take down the industry," Mr. Ek wrote in a letter included in Spotify's investor prospectus.

It is a chilling thought for defenders of intellectual property rights who have already seen piracy take its toll on the music and movie industries.

The resulting drop in the number of CDs "definitely will help eliminate a good chunk of piracy, especially in the consumer and small-business market, where most kinds of piracy take place," says analyst James Smith of market researcher Dataquest.

The Act does not instantly protect an American copyright holder from unauthorized piracy taking place abroad.

Similarly, with books, he said, "I would be scared to death about a culture of piracy taking hold.

While U.S. copyright defense organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) point to Russia and China as the major perpetrators of piracy, alpha60 maps show that piracy takes place in every region of the U.S. as well as throughout Canada and Western Europe.

Blockbuster, once a major contributor to studio income, filed for Chapter 11 protection in September after piracy took a toll on home entertainment revenue and competitors like Netflix moved in with low-cost alternatives to store-based sales and rentals.

Even so, 2011 is set to be the worst year since Somali piracy revived following the collapse of the short-lived government of the Union of Islamic Courts three years ago.Somali piracy takes the form of hijacking and extortion, rather than conventional robbery at sea.

The European Union, which had vowed to take a tougher stand against the scourge of Somali piracy, took the fight to the pirates' home base for the first time, destroying several of their signature fiberglass skiffs as they lay on the beach in a notorious pirate den.

However, neither "under" nor any other word in "lawfully made under this title" means "where". Nor can a geographical limitation be read into the word "applicable". The fact that the Act does not instantly protect an American copyright holder from unauthorized piracy taking place abroad does not mean the Act is inapplicable to copies made abroad.

NAIROBI, Kenya — The European Union, which had vowed to take a tougher stand against the scourge of Somali piracy, took the fight to the pirates' home base for the first time on Tuesday, destroying several of their signature fiberglass skiffs as they lay on the beach in a notorious pirate den.