Music Piracy

When it comes to EDM, there are typically two different opinions: one says electronica is just a bubble, the other idolizes EDM as the new rock n' roll.  Robert F.X. Sillerman, who's investing hundreds of m... Read More...

A tribute is one thing.  A tribute delivered in front of the entire gift shop is another.  Which brings us to the iTunes Store, which had a prominently-placed Lou Reed memorial ready to go, less than 24 hours a... Read More...

And the latest web service to get taken to court is.... YouTube-MP3.org! TorrentFreak reports that Germany's BVMI (The Federal Association of Music Industry) sued the German YouTube-MP3 site, which allows ... Read More...

Streaming services may be paying you pennies, but at least they're lowering piracy.  But what if that isn't true? Enter Envisional, the research arm of NetNames that is finding massive and continued increase... Read More...

When the United States Department of Justice removed an estimated 250 million files from Megaupload they must have released data proving the site's main purpose was copyright infringement, right? Wrong. North... Read More...

Today, the founder of isoHunt, Gary Fung, announced the site will be closing down as the result of pressure from the MPAA.  isoHunt has also agreed to pay $110 million as part of a settlement, all because peo... Read More...

In response to our recent article on the over-sensitive Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches, iTunes Content Acquisition and Partner Relations executive Kristin Rice Biba demanded that we apologize to her and every woma... Read More...

The London School of Economics has released a new study on the impact of digital music sharing, with three main conclusions:   1) Creative industry revenues are NOT on an overall decline due to the i... Read More...

The City of London Police is trying to get registrars to suspend torrent sites... by sending mean letters.  The nastygram-generator is housed in the new Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU).   The unit ... Read More...

A coalition of media outlets in Ukraine has exposed Samsung as the frontrunner of advertisers on the country's largest file-sharing sites, ex.ua and fs.ua.  Torrentfreak first reported the 'outing'. Ukraine ... Read More...