Music Piracy

If the future is streaming, there are a lot of people getting left behind in the present.  Which might explain the onslaught of new technologies that are making it easier than ever for music fans to downloa... Read More...

It's funny: access providers are all about the music, until it comes time to protect it.  Which brings us to Austria, a fresh battleground for serious access-level blocking of pirate domains, and potentiall... Read More...

Apple doesn't have time to answer multiple inquiries about executive Andre Young's history of violently assaulting women. Apple is ignoring  articles detailing his horrific acts. But they do have time to run p... Read More...

This is an actual anti-piracy ad campaign run by Universal Music Group in 2007. The extreme 'ripping the eyeballs out' concept was hatched by F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi to combat illegal downloading i... Read More...

(screenshot from flvto.biz site) YouTube video-to-download converters have been around for years, but Flvto takes it to the extreme by enabling 99 video downloads simultaneously. That includes downloads i... Read More...

2015 is a flat-line projection, based on first-half numbers (531.6 million downloads, down 10.1% from first-half 2014).  And remember, this is all before Apple Music launched. Source: Nielsen first-half ... Read More...

Want to get Apple Music on your late-model (2014) MacBook Air, in a Wifi-rich environment on launch day? Step 1. Open iTunes. Check out the new Pharrell exclusive you heard about on Apple Music! Step 2. ... Read More...

Today is the day. Apple Music has finally arrived on iOS in the Music app and on Mac and Windows in iTunes. Android and Apple TV will come later this year. The app has a boatload of features packaged int... Read More...