RIAA Blows Millions on Piracy Lawsuits

This summer sees the beginning of the Center for Copyright Infringement's (CCI) crackdown on Internet piracy, with major ISPs coming on board to monitor citizens that use peer to peer file sharing applications. Those found by the...

A new study has found that piracy, specifically BitTorrent downloads, doesn't affect box office sales, debunking what the film industry has stated for years. The academic paper was undertaken by researchers at the University of...

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 Recording Industry Association of America, an organisation which purports to champion the needs of struggling musicians starved of income by the evils of illegal music downloading, paid its president Cary Sherman $3,185,026...

LimeWire, the company behind the once, widely popular file sharing software by the same name has made an out-of-court settlement with the record labels who sued it earlier by alleging it to be a promoter of music piracy.According...

Limewire founder Mark Gorton has agreed to pay the RIAA $105 million settle a five-year dispute over file sharing. Limewire, which was once the casual pirate's weapon of choice when it came to downloading music, movies and...

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 -...

Google has started to actively censor "piracy related" queries on its search engine, barring people from using the terms on its 'auto-complete' and 'instant' search features.With the new anti-piracy taking effect, Google's...

The last few days have been a revelation for those who follow Google as the internet giant takes its motto "Don't be Evil" for a spin as it takes on the European Commission, Pirates as well as dodgy online retailers. Google...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a controversial new bill that allows the US Government to comprehensively shut down websites committing online piracy. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA)...

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...

Following open criticism from industry experts, law makers, privacy authorities, and government watchdogs, Google and Verizon's net neutrality plan has found some support.Almost every music trade group in the US has urged Google...

Limewire has been found guilty of supporting the copyright infringements of its users.A New York federal judge has ruled that the popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing client is guilty, and has declared it liable for 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...

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...