Music Piracy

Have you paid for least one music download in the past month? Have you streamed at least one song in the last month? Paid Download Sales, 2005-2014. Data from a survey conducted by GlobalWebIndex inv... Read More...

Less than 3 days after resurfacing...  ... Read More...

Apple recently acquired Semetric, the company behind Musicmetric. What else is new in Apple's music strategy? TorrentFreak has posted a patent obtained by Apple on January 13th. The patent is for a lega... Read More...

According to ExtraTorrent, one of the largest and longest-running torrent trackers on the planet.  Exact numbers were not disclosed, but everything in the top 10 has received at least ten million downloads on E... Read More...

  If you've never heard of eMusic, then maybe that's the point.  Here's an email leaked from inside digital distributor The Orchard to Digital Music News concerning the struggling music 'e-tailer'..... Read More...

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde thinks the site deserved to be shut down. The eighth most-notorious pirate site doesn't agree. IsoHunt.to has created oldpiratebay.org, a working copy of The Pirate Bay. T... Read More...

It's now been two days since The Pirate Bay was taken down by police. So far there have been no real signs of a comeback. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has posted a reaction to the takedown on his bl... Read More...

Updated 12/10/14: The Pirate Bay is still down, although it could pop back up since the site was hosted on multiple cloud hosts. TPB's link archive was widely available, and many proxy sites and mirror site... Read More...