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Google’s cloud-streaming music service stalled by record industry reluctance
When Apple announces iTunes 10 on Wednesday, almost everyone expected iTunes in the cloud. Instead? We got Ping, and word on the street is that while Apple does intend to eventually shift iTunes […]
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LimeWire shutters its file-sharing services once and for all
One of the last of the pre-Bittorrent peer-to-peer file sharing services has finally caved under the relentless legal pressure of the RIAA: LimeWire shuttered its file sharing services for good...
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Spotify is close to a deal with U.S. labels, on track for launch by end of...
If you’re lucky enough to live within a few select countries in Europe then you know that Spotify is the best streaming, cloud-based music service there is… but for all of its awesomeness, […]
View ArticleLimeWire is back as LimeWire Pirate Edition (UPDATED)
At the end of October there would have been a lot of smiling faces among members of the RIAA. After a long legal battle they had finally managed to take down LimeWire, one […]
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Google starts blocking piracy-related terms from autocomplete and Instant
For a search engine to be taken seriously and offer up the best results, it has to consider any and all content on the Internet. While Google’s search service does that, it has […]
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Record companies request $75 trillion in damages from LimeWire
An amount only Dr. Evil would naively ask for is actually being requested from the thirteen record companies that are suing file-sharing company LimeWire for copyright infringement. The amount is so...
View ArticleRIAA gets $105 million from LimeWire, but musicians left empty-handed
If you thought the RIAA’s original demand of $75 trillion in compensation from LimeWire was a teensy bit excessive, you were absolutely right. Heck, even the low end of their sliding damages scale […]
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RIAA goes after Box.net users
In a somewhat unusual case, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is seeking legal action against Box.net. The RIAA normally goes after peer-to-peer file sharing sites, like Limewire,...
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Tennessee passes bill making Netflix password-sharing illegal
One of the perks of having a friend with a Pandora, Rhapsody, or Netflix account is that if they’re really nice to you they may share their password, giving you free access to […]
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Download.com P2P infringement case dropped
For years, Download.com has been one of the most popular sites on the web for finding and (as the name suggests) downloading all kinds of software. And like any good download site would, […]
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30 years of the music industry in 30 seconds
The music industry has changed drastically over the past 30 years. The various music formats–from vinyl records, to 8-track, to cassette, to CD, and then to digital downloads–show a number of...
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Judge decides piracy may boost sales
It’s not often that a judge presiding over a piracy case paints a positive light on the act, but that’s precisely what happened recently in Spain. The “fact” that piracy and copyright infringement […]
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Pirate Bay offering promo platform for artists
In industries that deal with copyright, The Pirate Bay had may as well be a legion of super villains. When members of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture […]
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BTJunkie, the largest torrent site indexer on the web shuts down
The seizure of Megaupload is continuing to have an impact on the wider file-sharing market with many similar services either worried about their future, or taking measures to protect themselves from...
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Anonymous launches Anontune streaming music service?
Put on your sceptical hats, people, it appears as though Anonymous has launched a streaming music service called Anontune. Wired reports having talked with a co-creator and @YourAnonNews has tweeted...
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Online file sharers buy a lot of legitimate music
Although the Recording Industry Association of America would have you believe that people who connect to online peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks are the worst criminals on the face of the...
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McAfee patents piracy prevention plug-in to stop torrent downloads
The security brains at McAfee have come up with a brilliant new way to keep the average computer user from getting into trouble online. They’ve patented a system that can identify pirated content […]
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Hotfile shuts down after settling with MPAA for $80 million
MPAA action has resulted in yet another major file-sharing site closing down. Visit Hotfile.com today, and you’ll see the above notice. It’s the result of a massive settlement with the MPAA, who were...
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Google took down 213,000,000 infringing URLs this year
In 2013, Google received around 235,000,000 takedown requests this year from copyright holders. 91% of those were acted upon — meaning about 213 million URLs were removed from Google’s index as a...
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Aurous the “Popcorn Time of music” is already being sued
Just a few days ago, a new P2P app called Aurous burst onto the streaming music scene. Some called it “the Popcorn Time of music,” which is exactly the kind of talk that […]
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