Will be available for FREE streaming on social networking site “iLike” from March 24th -26th before official CD and download release. More and more bands are opting to embrace new digital distribution methods. We’ve all watched as Radiohead, Saul Williams, and then NIN make waves in the music industry by offering their latest albums or [...]

Music publication “Blender” compiles a list of the biggest mistakes ever made made by record industry over the years. Each of us I’m sure has our own personal mental list compiling the record industry’s greatest blunders over the years, but the music publication “Blender” has taken the time to come up with a hand dandy [...]

Leaves BETA and now offers an enormous library of different movies and TV shows for FREE and LEGAL on-demand video streaming. As many of you are well aware, streaming video online is growing increasingly popular as people get faster internet connection speeds and are looking for ways to time-shift their TV viewing habits or are [...]

EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music take Eircom to court to force it to begin blocking illegal P2P downloads of copyrighted music. In what’s being called a first of its kind in the war on illegal file-sharing by copyright holders in Ireland, the so-called “Big 4″ music labels have banded together to sue [...]

Tim Couch, a Republican representative in the Kentucky Legislature filed a bill that would make it illegal for anyone to post online anonymously. The bill (.doc) says that everyone who signs up with an “interactive service” must demand users full name, address and valid electronic mail address. The bill also states that any “interactive service [...]

A quick rundown of more video streaming sites to watch your favorite TV shows, movies, cartoons, and even anime for FREE online. TVLinks Directory It’s been a while now since TVLinks was shut down, but its loss is still felt by the many whom were loyal fans of the site and all of the great [...]

IFPI targeting Latin American P2P servers. IFPI Chile, with the support of Chilean police investigators, was able to identify and shut down a major DC++ hub called "Metal Hub." One of the requirements for members to participate in the hub was that each user should have at least 1 GB of music files to share. [...]

Music lobbying group agrees to a cost saving plan requested by the record label. A few months back I reported how EMI, one of the so-called "Big 4" record labels, had threatened to withdraw its membership from the IFPI, the music lobbying organization, unless it was willing to reduce the amount of money required for [...]

This last week, many Azureus users may have noticed a bunch of updates in their clients. This is because of an update for their client – moving up to version 3.0.5.0. The update brings a number of updates to the system. The change log includes the following additions: Core | Azureus probes trackers for UDP-capabilities [...]

Is it possible to control the internet or the free flow of information? It’s a question that could easily be dismissed as a fools errand. Yet, in the span of a month, there has been a noticeable number of interesting attempts to do so. Clearly, there are those that think it’s possible. In some instances, [...]

It may be one of the higher profile acquisitions of the year if true, but CEO Jay Adelson of Digg denies claims that Microsoft or Google could be purchasing Digg.com for $300 million. TechCrunch, the original news outlet that reported the story insists that their source is still accurate despite the denial. The original news [...]

Copyright term extension made a brief appearance in the British House of Commons recently. A currently unidentified Member of Parliament objected to the bill when it was about to be discussed in the House, stopping it in its tracks. Open Rights Group is reporting on this recent move, but is currently unable to identify the [...]

On February 29th, the EFF and Open Rights Group started a petition against the proposal to extend copyright. Now, the number of signatures has risen to nearly 7,000. The Sound Copyright website says the following: Copyright is a bargain. In exchange for their investment in creating and distributing sound recordings to the public, copyright holders [...]

Critics say is same technology used by Sudan and other oppressive regimes and should have no place in the US. Travelers using Denver International Airport’s free Wi-Fi service cannot visit Internet sites that airport officials consider provocative. A report in The Denver Post says the airport is blocking Vanity Fair magazine’s Web site, the hipster [...]

Proves that all its gloom and doom about the movie industry going bankrupt are really as far fetched as its opponents have claimed all along. Every year the movie industry goes before Congress and anybody else who’ll listen and bemoans about how it’s constantly under assault by rampant piracy the world over. It claims it’s [...]

Proposes five-tiered pricing plan that would allow it to sell albums at even lower prices and require the labels to bear more of the costs. The world’s largest music retailer has more bad news for the music industry and this time it’s that it’s demanding a five-tiered pricing plan similar to the one it currently [...]

Dependent Records head Stefan Herwig is tired of hearing that the CD is dead, record companies are evil, and of how “cool” the file-sharing community is. Tired of all the talk about how “dead the CD is, how evil record companies are, (and) how cool the filesharing community is,” Dependent Records head Stefan Herwig has [...]

It has happened and it will be taking place tomorrow in court. The EFF yesterday announced that they will be challenging the RIAAs ‘Making Available’ theory in court. Can the Recording Industry Association of America sue someone for having a song in a shared directory or share point? That’s what the RIAA is hoping for. [...]

Liked the trial of Lucky and Flo last year so much that it decided to order a pair to work full-time. Last year the MPAA-trained anti-piracy canines Lucky and Flo made headlines around the world as they traveled around Southeast Asia fighting evil movie pirates at every turn. Now satisfied with the results and anxious [...]

Uploads Vol 1 of “Ghosts I-IV”to The Pirate Bay. No longer constrained by meddling record labels concerned more with profits than the art of music, Nine Inch Nails has decided to experiment with the release of their latest album “Ghosts.” Unlike previous albums which were produced and released in the same, tired manner as countless [...]