Music Piracy

This almost seems too strange to be true, though no one is denying it (or, fixing it).  After rifling through the laundry list of major corporations found advertising on illegal music download and cyberlocker s... Read More...

Last week Apple announced that it would be exclusively streaming the new David Bowie album, The Next Day, on iTunes through March 12.  It turns out it's not as exclusive as they, perhaps, expected. The compa... Read More...

So it turns out that the news that the Pirate Bay had moved to North Korea is more than likely a fib. After the news broke on Monday, it didn't take long for tech sites to question its probability, casting it i... Read More...

Late last week BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media and three other UK broadband providers were ordered by the high court to block access to the music and movie file-sharing websites Kickass Torrents (KAT), H33T and Fenop... Read More...

Suffocation is a seriously-heavy metal group for seriously-heavy metal fans.  But despite a core following, this is a group struggling against theft and content devaluation.  Just like everyone else. Which i... Read More...

Has it all just been commoditized and devalued beyond repair? Yes, according to Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, lauded as both a music and digital pioneer alike.  When asked by the Guardian how he viewed Apple and... Read More...

The finding comes from a surprising source: music industry trade group IFPI, an active supporter and participant in the early-2012 shutdown of Megaupload.  In a report just published by the agency, the shutdown... Read More...

This is a problem that seems to get simpler by the moment.  Because for all the discussion surrounding affinity targeting, nebulously rotating inventory, and complex delivery algorithms, it turns out Google can... Read More...