The RIAA have finally declared DRM dead for music, according to all-things-BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak.

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The Isle of Man is dealing with the crime of Internet piracy in an equally novel way: by accepting defeat. Rather than police the Internet for illegal activity, the Isle of Man has proposed a radical new tax of £1 ($1.45) per week that will be paid directly to recording compani …

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Musician/Humanitarian BONO is reportedly the source of the recently leaked new U2 tracks from their forthcoming album, rumoured to be called 'No Line On The Horizon'. .

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Having failed to stop piracy by suing internet users, the music industry is for the first time seriously considering a file sharing surcharge that internet service providers would collect from users.

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A husband and wife from Finchley have been found guilty of a multi-million pound scam to defraud the music industry, believed to be the largest music fraud of its kind in the UK.

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What's the Big Deal with Music Piracy?

We've all heard the stories. Peer-to-peer (P2P) pirate lords distribute thousands of albums for free across the Internet, single-handedly bringing down the music industry as we know it.

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Police have arrested three people on suspicion of being involved in one of the country's biggest Internet-based music and film piracy rings, officials said on Wednesday.

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The RIAA is attempting to curtail campus piracy by requiring universities to fight P2P file sharing or lose federal aid in a new House bill.

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Back in the day, the US had a tax on blank cassettes to thwart music piracy. In Canada, a hotbed of music pirates, they have such a tax on CD-Rs. Does it work? No, but it makes the music industry happy. And isn't that what it's all about?

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This week, we will mark the fourth year anniversary of the RIAA's legal campaign against music piracy where the RIAA has threatened, settled or filed lawsuits against more than 20,000 of its own customers. Inspite of all this, P2P is as popular as ever.

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The music download website whose activities threatened to scupper Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been shut down.

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Although the controversial online music store AllofMP3.com was officially shutdown by the Russian Government this week for infringing copyright laws, customers from the site who have existing credit can still purchase songs through its downloadable windows desktop and smartphone  …

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This is the first part of a two-part series on the decline of the record industry.For the music industry, it was a rare bit of good news: Linkin Park's new album sold 623,000 copies in its first week this May -- the strongest debut of the year. But it wasn't nearly enough.

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As a followup to the article I seeded on Tuesday, April 10, Yahoo China is fined $20,000 for aiding music piracy.

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Trade relations between the US and China have long been tense - that of sort of an awkward acquaintanceship between two people who don't really like each other but have to get along because they work with each other.

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Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) is a controversial figure. As we noted in our report on the new chair of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, Mr. Berman is a staunch supporter of Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general.

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Although in recent months the recording industry has cracked down on illegal downloading of music by threatening lawsuits, Northern students continue to pirate music from the Internet.

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The United States is pushing Russia to close AllOfMP3.com, a website that sells MP3s for a few cents, as a prerequisite for joining the World Trade Organization.

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What began late last year as an effort by France to ratify the European copyright standard is now likely to produce some of the weakest penalties in the world for Internet music piracy - the equivalent of a parking ticket.

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