Copyright Royalty Board rejects call to hike download royalties

Ever since a new website was launched, which is capable of monitoring approximately one-fifth of all Bit Torrent downloaders from across the world, it has been found that even the supposedly pro Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)...

The US Entertainment industry has joined hands with the country’s top internet service providers to launch a new warning system that is aimed at tackling the menace of digital piracy.Leading ISPs including Comcast,...

Internet piracy is on the decline in the US, according to new study from market researchers NPD Group. The company reports that during the last quarter of 2010, nine per cent of America's online population - 16 million users -...

A Minnesota woman, found guilty of copyright infringement after illegally sharing music online, has been ordered by a federal jury to pay a staggering $1.5 million in damages. Single mother Jammie Thomas-Rasset was sued by the...

Some of the biggest names in the US entertainment industry yesterday threw their weight behind a bill that could allow US prosecutors to seize the domain names of suspected pirates. Usual culprits the Motion Picture Association...

Big Music is muscling in on the net neutrality debate, hoping to sneak in a tougher crackdown on suspected pirates. A consortium consisting of 13 music industry trade bodies this week sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt,...

Music industry scapegoat Joel Tenenbaum has filed a Motion for a New Trial to Judge Nancy Gertner, the same judge who presided over the original trial, in an attempt to get a reduction in the original $22,000 per song fine. The...

In what appears to be a striking decision in a high-profile internet piracy case, a woman in Minnesota has been ordered to pay around $2 million in damages to the Recording Industry Association in America (RIAA) after she was...

RIAA's Nemesis, The Pirate Bay, has announced that it will release a Virtual Private Network service or VPN called IPREDator for a mere 60 Euros per annum (5 euros per month). According to The Pirate Bay, IPREDator is a service...

Online Music Service Last.fm has hit back at online tech news website Techcrunch over an article saying that Last.fm has shared data about users' music usage with the RIAA. Writing for Techcrunch, Erick Schonfeld, the site's...

The Federal Copyright Royalty Bureau ruled against music producers and the National Music Publishers' Association who were lobbying to get a 6 cents increase per digital track downloaded, going from 9.1 cents to 15 cents, a...

Tens of thousands of UK households could soon receive letters from their ISPs asking them to stop sharing music illegally in an anti-piracy deal brought forward by the government under the pressure of the music industry. Six of...

It seems that reports of the demise of AllofMP3.com, the popular Russkie music download portal, have been premature, as a Moscow court has ruled that the site does not, as a point of law, infringe any copyright...

We have rounded the top 150 Digg articles of 2006 as at 19.12.2006 00 00GMT, looked at the links, the number of comments, the diggs and the topics covered and tortured those stats until they tell us the truth. Fascinating...

The file sharing network has been locked in battle with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the UK's International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) for a number of years. The agreement settles...