Piracy

17 million Americans illegally downloaded music licensed for streaming in 2018.

Gene Simmons has taken aim at music fans, calling them "villains", and citing their refusal to buy music as the downfall of the music industry. Early last year, Gene Simmons refuted the idea that…

It appears that attempts to reduce Internet piracy are working, with a new study from the UK indicating that people are choosing to stream music rather than illegally download it, citing ease of…

It might be almost two decades since Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich led the campaign against digital piracy, but it appears the effects of the infamous Napster lawsuit are still on the minds of many…

I'm going to start with the assumption that we've all seen those dramatic "You Wouldn't Steal A Car" anti-piracy commercials at the start of DVDs, with the watery nu-metal riffs and a man committing…

MUSO found that 63% of consumers who pirated music, film and TV think it’s wrong, but a very high 83% argued that they tried to find it legally first.

In an era in which streaming platforms like Spotify are one of the most popular methods of listening to music, and services are starting to increase the number of ads they place on their platforms,…

Remember Napster? The early file-sharing service that effectively gave rise to the advent of digital music piracy? Well, Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson certainly seems to, slamming the…

The rogue stream-ripping site YouTube-mp3.org has been taken down following legal action brought by organisations representing record companies in the U.S. and U.K. The Germany-based company which…

In a game-changing decision, two of the founders of The Pirate Bay have been ordered by a Finnish court to pay AUD $605,000 to record labels, after being found guilty of numerous copyright breaches.…