This is beginning to make the whole legal process that goes into shutting down torrent sites and the like look, well, a bit of a joke. See, a few months ago the Pirate Bay was served with shutdown ord…
Tax on blank CDs in Canada has always been higher than the standard tax rate as part of a royality scheme to try and compensate record labels for the millions lost in copied music each year. It'…
When crazy ol Axl said that he was going to report the leakers to the FBI and get them done for it; he wasn't actually messing around. A leaker of 9 tracks of the now hilariously late Chinease D…
A senior official from one of the UKs leading ISPs has said that the government has basically put a gun to the head of them to force them to reduce the levels of music piracy that occurs. They are now…
RIAA has co-opted a group from Congress in its ongoing fight against schools. The Congressmen include both Democrats and Republicans and sent a letter to 19 universities including Howard University, …
…. but the company already has a similar service set up at MP3sparks.
The Russian government closed the music download site AllofMP3 to mollify the U.S. government and the World Trade Organization …
The web site Consumerist ran a poll for worst company in the United States. The winner was RIAA (never mind that it's not an actual company).
Consumerist published the top 50 congresspeople who …
Another part of the RIAA strategy to prop up the major label cartel is seeing success as state governments are increasingly regulating the sale of used CDs. The legislation is under the guise of stemm…
RIAA is taking a new tactic in its fight on pirates of all stripes – jump on the Bush administration bandwagon to create a police state. The Bush administration, fresh on the heels of its success on t…
Proving that DRM will never die and paying customers remain enemy number one, an HBO executive revealed that the cable programmer has been stymied by the nasty regulators at the FCC.
HBO Chief Techn…
