Music Piracy

Total, paying subscribers... Any questions? Paying streaming subscriber figures based on company disclosures: (1) SoundCloud most recently announced plans to start a paid subscription service in the futu... Read More...

Nine months after shuttering Grooveshark, the music industry has another fast-rising clone to deal with.  This time, it's grooveshark.im, another shadowy re-creation that appears to be operating out of Lima, ... Read More...

After earning millions of dollars in advertising revenue, ExtraTorrent unexpectedly shut down this year.  Undeterred by the closure, users have quickly flocked to a number of different alternatives. The foll... Read More...

Once upon a time, broadband ISPs offered unfettered access to sites offering unlicensed, illegally-uploaded content.  And that includes torrent sites.  But all of that is now changing, on both sides of the At... Read More...

Man, Apple is hurting. Sources say that Apple Music will only have 3.5 million subscribers after November cancellations (15 million initially signed up for the trial period beginning June 30th).  Spotify proj... Read More...

Last month, we witnessed ShareBeast get completely wiped from the internet by the RIAA, US Department of Justice, FBI, National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (NIPRCC), and US Department o... Read More...