Edited sentence: Audited sales records by Nielsen indicate that at least 3 million tracks from over 40 Irish artists had been sold, with the money going to the chair of IMRO and his associated and the independent musicians not receiving a cent.From 1999 to 2001 the copyright section of the Irish Gardai had investigated the case, believing that the plethora of fake song titles on IMRO's books were being used for financial fraud on a massive scale.In particular, a US federal court case taken in 2009 by a member who had resigned out of protest revealed that IMRO's chairman at that time was involved in copyright violation on an industrial scale.That is one point of view.The Irish DPP (equivalent of attorney general) declared copyright violation was not a criminal offence in Ireland, leading logically if disgracefully to the dissolution of the Gardai copyright section.another is that, since its being granted a monopoly for collection of royalties in Ireland in rather suspicious circumstances in the late 90's, IMRO has been central to the destruction of the Irish music industry, currently about 10% of the size it was before this monopoly took effect