Digital Music – The Future

…. 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 …

IFPI, the international version of RIAA, released "Ten Inconvenient Truths About File Swapping". It's bizarre propaganda that conveniently confuses physical piracy with digital downloads…

A Finnish Court rules that effective means effective. The issue is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the European counterpart, the European Copyright Directive (EUCD), which says it'…

While Internet broadcasting is being crippled in the U.S., the same thing is happening on the world stage.

In 2006 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) almost passed the WIPO Broadcas…

Italian researchers surveyed the country's consumers to study the relationship between P2P and CD sales. They found that only a minority of file sharers, 30 percent, reduced CD purchases, while an…

First it was PiratPartiet (the Pirate Party) in Sweden. Now it's Venstre, the Norwegian Liberal Party, which passed a P2P resolution that supports personal file sharing. The resolution also propos…

We previously reported the ruling "Italian Court Rules Personal Downloading Legal." Er, not so fast. Our good friends at IFPI, the international companion to RIAA, say the case was based on …

In a rare loss for the recording industry, an Italian court ruled that copyright infringement is not a crime as long as the downloader or sharer does not profit. The decision is sure to draw the atten…

A French court ruled in favor of personal privacy over record label intrusion. The court said that copyright holders that conduct unrestrained searches on p2p networks engage in illegal data invasion….

Australia has had a relatively reasonable and flexible copyright policy. But a free trade agreement between Australia and the U.S. is changing that. The Agreement requires Australia to change its law …