Music Piracy

Kickasstorrents.com isn't quite dead, at least not yet. On July 20th, the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, as well as the IRS, jointly seized and shut down Kickasstorrents.com, the largest to... Read More...

Three months ago, Apple said they had no plans to drop music downloads from the iTunes Store. Now, it's happening in one of the largest music markets in the world. In May of this year, sources to Digital Mus... Read More...

Sony Music Entertainment released their first quarterly earnings report from April 1 to June 30, beating out analyst’s expectations in posting an 8.7% increase in sales to $1.374 billion. This is a strong i... Read More...

Ira Rothkoen, the same man who’s worked in keeping Kim Dotcom out of U.S. hands for the past several years, will also represent Artem Vaulin in his case against U.S. federal authorities. Charged with one count ... Read More...

Torrenting isn't the biggest threat anymore, a new study finds. Once upon a time, torrent downloading was considered enemy number one by the film, TV, music, and gaming industries.  And before that, it was P... Read More...

KickassTorrents was the new Pirate Bay. Actually, maybe it still is. After getting raided and forcibly taken offline last week by the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, KickassTorrents has now ... Read More...

It's official: 2016 is the year that killed music downloads. Last month, sources pointed Digital Music News to double-digit declines in music download sales, with drops potentially exceeding 20 percent year-... Read More...

The figures prove that digital music sales are falling quicker than physical sales... Last month, DMN was provided with some interesting information from PricewaterhouseCoopers.  According to PwC's projected... Read More...