This page contains all the news items for the tag "Music" for the month of September 2011. To view all news items without being the current tag filter, please click here.
While the music industry is still concentrating on legal and technical ways to stop piracy, legal streaming services like Spotify seems to have had the most success against piracy by competing directly with pirates ... Read more ...
New anti-piracy firm only asks $10 to settle copyright disputes, but that may be $10 too much given what the firm can actually do if you don't pay up ... Read more ...
In Italy, MPs seek to introduce a law that will blacklist users and prevent them from going online based on a single allegation of copyright infringement, while just a single allegation is putting the Swedish Film Institute in big trouble, as their IP address has been caught pirating films ... Read more ...
Joel Tenenbaum has to pay the RIAA $675,000 as the RIAA wins their appeal of an earlier ruling which saw the penalty reduced to $67,500 ... Read more ...
Lobbying efforts have intensified in the last quarter as the RIAA, MPAA, and even RapidShare, spend millions to get politicians to support their agendas ... Read more ...
Music copyright in the EU is extended by a further 20 years, to 70 years, as musician Cliff Richard, and big music, win their argument for more copyright protection ... Read more ...
The MPAA says that every pirate that stops downloading would otherwise spend $1,000 per year buying legal stuff, and that 13% of all American adults are movie/TV pirates ... Read more ...
Wikileaks provides details of law enforcement tactics in taking down piracy topsites, including getting content holders to provide re-release content to gain trust of topsite operators ... Read more ...
YouTube falls prey to false copyright claims, as authorised Bieber and Gaga videos taken down by an apparent 13 year-old Pakistani kid ... Read more ...