Music coalition warns that it better change new requirement that an objector to a proposed gTLD must show "likelihood of material detriment" to the "broader Internet community"or else it will ...
Corey Taylor tells Britain’s Kerrang! magazine that people aren't willing to "risk their hard-earned money on music that's maybe 98% crap," and that if it wasn't so awful people wouldn't ...
Although the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has repeatedly claimed a rise in total music industry revenues over the last several years, says that rising digital music sales aren't making up ...
Says that "comparing sales numbers only reveals part of the story," and notes that in 2010 the music market "saw enormous growth" in online streaming music services like Vevo and ...
A few days ago, we reported on the defeat of web censorship in Spain where ISPs would be mandated to block websites if the government ordered them to ...
In the wake of the closure of the famed BitTorrent tracker site OiNK more than two years ago Waffles.fm and What.CD appeared in its place, and each ...
Yesterday, we reported on the RIAAs efforts to get Mastercard to cut off payments to MegaUpload. Today, we have received an exclusive response from MegaUpload on this ...
In a move seemingly inspired by the US government pressuring credit card companies and online payment services to cut off Wikileaks, the MPAA and RIAA are reportedly trying to get ...
Earlier, we reported that the MPAA, RIAA and the BSA had influenced the push for HADOPI in France according to the Wikileaks ever-present cablegate story. It now ...
Wikileaks has been releasing plenty of new details on how the US views the world. Amongst the interesting tidbits of information buried inside Cablegate was what role the MPAA, ...
Argues that the RIAA "cannot trace and, indeed, made no attempt to trace, the particular injury" she is alleged to have caused by illegally sharing 24 copyrighted songs, and that ...
Tells Commerce Dept in reply to a "Notice of Inquiry" that the "role of lawsuits in solving the online theft problem is clearly limited," and that it needs ISPs ...
Tells vendors that it will "cease LimeWire Store operations on December 31, 2010," and visitors to the site that it is "no longer accepting new customers." News comes of the ...
US Senate's Committee on the Judiciary approves the Combating Online Infringement & Counterfeits Act by unanimous vote - 19-0.
In a blow to free speech advocates that hoped for an ...
Music industry follows the lead of the MPAA and submits its own list of the world's "most notorious markets" to the Deputy Assistant of the Office of the US Trade ...
Says the injunction represents a "significant step in the bright future of digital music," and encourages former users to consider switching to one of the many legal online services that ...
One of the frustrating issues for analysts of the file-sharing phenomenom is that so much of what we know, or think we know, about it rests not on ...
High Court rules Irish law doesn't require ISPs to identify and disconnect illegal file-sharers, meaning UPC will not be forced to comply with Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) ...
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) survey shows a majority of consumers are not interested in having FM tuners in their cell phones, contradicting an earlier survey conducted by the National Association ...
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) release results of nationwide poll claiming sizeable majority of cell phone users would like the ability to listen to local radio stations through ...
