Music Piracy

Extratorrent, one of the world’s top illegal torrent “indexing” sites, has gone gently into the good night. On Monday, Extratorrent went down for emergency maintenance.  The site came back online the followi... Read More...

So, after being accused of promoting piracy, YouTube commissions a study that shows (surprise!) it actually helps curb piracy.  This is only true, though, if you don’t count the massive amount of users using ... Read More...

Coke and Popcorn now re-directs users to Netflix. Will that work?  Apparently not, as users have quickly flocked to these top alternatives. (Updated November 2017 with seven fresh links to Coke and Popcorn a... Read More...

Music streaming killed music piracy, right?  Not exactly. Last February, a study published on Digital Music News showed that 20% of Americans actively pirated music.  In fact, 35 percent of Americans who buy... Read More...

The Pirate Bay founder just sold Flattr to AdBlock Plus for millions.  Now let this be a lesson to all you boys and girls out there! Flattr allows users to directly fund online publishers and content creator... Read More...

Bitsnoop takes the long digital dirt nap after it just didn’t make enough money following ISP blocks. After failing to bring in sufficient web traffic, long-time piracy torrent website Bitsnoop shuttered its... Read More...

BPI's former head of anti- piracy David Wood is now under police investigation. BPI members account for 85 percent of all music sold in the UK, according to the trade group.  And you may be familiar with the... Read More...