MUSO data shows popularity of Apple exclusive on torrenting sites
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ISPs may face ‘huge liabilities’ for music use after BMG’s $25m payout from Cox
Rightscorp tells ISPs: play by the rules, or pay up
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UK Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence To Combat Online Piracy
Want to Stop Piracy? Try 10 Year Jail Sentences… The UK’s current copyright legislation is set for an overhaul due to the introduction of the digital economy bill. This bill has been focused on implementing harsher sentences for online piracy. The current legislation states that the maximum prison sentence for online copyright infringement is two years, and […]
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Google’s role in music piracy is much bigger than it first appears
Search engines were responsible for 46% of traffic to illegal streaming sites last year
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Prince Still Fighting Piracy Even After Death
Stop stealing my music… Throughout his time in the music industry, Prince worked with Web Sherrif to protect his music content. He also left clear instructions for this to continue after his death. As part of his continued efforts to make his music more difficult to gain access to, Web Sherrif has sent thousands of requests to […]
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Tidal Exclusives Causing Major Piracy Craze
Tidal has adopted the ‘streaming exclusives’ strategy in a bid to drive subscriber numbers, but at what cost? Well…in deed limiting the availability of artists music to a particular streaming service has proved to be a good strategy for the platform, in terms of increasing user numbers. We saw this with Kanye West’s ‘The Life of […]
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A fifth of UK young adults use piracy sites – in Spain, it’s a third
New EU stats come from EUIPO report
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Is the Streaming Industry Lying About Piracy?
Streaming kills piracy, right? Maybe it’s not that simple. Over the past ten years, the music industry has profoundly transformed to the point of becoming unrecognizable. The traditional business structure has been replaced by a profound digital disruption, one that has provoked major shifts in the way music fans discover, consume and pay for music. And throughout that roiling […]
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