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RIAA's Tax Filings Shows Funding, Legal Fees Dwindling
posted: August 20, 2012
The Recording Industry Association of America, the anti-piracy trade group that represents the interests of many powerful music industry companies, is losing money. Fast. TorrentFreak obtained a copy of the RIAA’s publicly available 990 Form,…
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This Week In Piracy
posted: August 13, 2012
While it may lack the SOPA/PIPA protests from this past January, the second week in August may prove to be an even more monumental period in the history of music piracy. Arguably the story to…
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6 Strikes And You're Out
posted: July 21, 2011
Ever since Napster first launched in 1999, piracy has been the music industry’s worst nightmare. With drastic drops in sales and revenues over the last decade, record labels are desperate to try and find ways…
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Industrial Revolution: LimeWire/RIAA Settlement – Sound, Fury, Etc.
posted: June 9, 2011
The popularity of LimeWire, the now-defunct peer-to-peer file-sharing network, predictably drew the ire of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which went into full-attack mode within the last year. The RIAA first went to…
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Industrial Revolution: First Mate Biden Takes On Pirates
posted: May 12, 2011
“Look, piracy is outright theft. People are out there blatantly stealing from Americans”stealing their ideas and robbing us of America’s creative energies. There’s no reason why we should treat intellectual property any different than tangible…
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Scavenger Hunts Killed the Bonus Track Star
posted: September 26, 2010
If you’re an ingenious indie band, your wallet doesn’t have to be stuffed with Golden Tickets to play Willy Wonka. Hidden and/or free stuff can be a smart and inexpensive way to get a message…
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