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Bronfman, Warner Music To Internet: Gimme

Music tycoon Edgar Bronfman, Jr., would like to bundle a fee into your Internet access in exchange for unlimited access to music.

RIAA Lawsuits Not Yielding Artist Payments Yet

Despite collecting millions in settlements with online music services accused of enabling music piracy, the RIAA's artists may not be seeing the paydays they imagined.

French, Canadians, (Mark) Cuban Go After P2P

Torrents and peer-to-peer networks have had a rough couple of weeks lately. In addition to Cox and Comcast's recent blocking of torrent sites, file-sharing has been under assault in France and Canada, not to mention from billionaire Mark Cuban.

Whispers Emerge Of A Torrent-Free Future

Closing up parts of the BitTorrent protocol may have been a necessary business decision by Bram Cohen and company, but it's motivated the people behind The Pirate Bay to start working on a new protocol to replace torrents.

File-Sharing Could Get University Funding Cut?

So as state-funded university tuition rises faster than the inflation rate, grants are becoming nonexistent, and students are actually looking abroad to complete their education cheaper and in half the time, Congressmen cozy with the RIAA are threatening to cut their funding more if they don't play ball with the recording labels.

RIAA Publishes Piracy’s Top 25

In its ongoing battle of futility against file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has published a list of the academic institutions that the organization has deemed as the top offenders when it comes to sharing music over a peer-to-peer connection. In total, the RIAA sent out over 14,500 copyright infringement notices during the last academic year, with Ohio University topping the list at 1,287 letters – accounting for nearly ten percent of the alleged illegal music sharing.

German Cops Bust 3,500 File Sharers

Providing song files to other music fans through the use of the eDonkey file sharing application turned into a pain in the ass when a widespread record industry sweep took place in Germany.

RIAA: Goodbye BearShare, Hello $30M

Online file-sharing service BearShare, along with operators Free Peers Inc., is packing it up due to a $30 million settlement with the recording industry.