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News This week visitors to pirate music site DDL-Music were greeted with a rare ‘Error 451’ message from Cloudflare, indicating that the site had been rendered unavailable due to legal reasons. It now transpires that following legal action by Universal Music, Cloudflare was served with a court injunction , which threatened fines and potential prison […]
News Newly published research shows that the French anti-piracy law Hadopi has had a positive effect on digital music sales. This effect decreased over time but remained relatively stable for bigger artists. The same data further suggests that people’s music consumption became less varied during the same period. According to the researcher, the discovery element […]
News A group of major music publishing companies doesn’t want 23 copyright law professors to be heard in a piracy case. The scholars submitted a brief in the ongoing piracy liability lawsuit against ISP Charter, warning that a recent recommendation could harm both ISPs and consumers. However, the music groups suggest that not all profs […]
News A YouTuber who used a royalty-free track supplied by YouTube itself has had all of his videos copyright claimed by companies including SonyATV and Warner Chappell. According to the music outfits, Matt Lownes’ use the use of the track ‘Dreams’ by Joakim Karud means that they are now entitled to all of his revenue. […]
News Last year, several major music companies sued Internet provider Cox Communications for failing to take proper action against pirating subscribers. The case will soon head to trial where Cox plans to present evidence showing that its anti-piracy measures were effective. However, the music labels want to exclude the evidence, describing it as a confusing […]
News The RIAA recently obtained a DMCA subpoena to uncover the owner of music hosting service Wi.to. The music group accuses the site of facilitating copyright infringement and points out several pirated tracks on the platform. Wi.to’s operator is quite surprised by the RIAA’s actions, not least because the group never asked for these files […]
Earlier today Twitter exploded when a tweet by US President Donald Trump was taken down for alleged copyright infringement. A copy of the DMCA notice obtained by TorrentFreak shows that Warner Music was behind the takedown. It became the seventh copyright complaint filed against Trump’s Twitter account in 2019 alone, raising questions about Twitter’s repeat […]
Music industry IFPI has released its latest music consumption report, revealing that music listening numbers are increasing. The report also stresses that piracy remains a threat, but fails to highlight the rather dramatic drop in piracy rates that took place over the past year. Music piracy, in various forms, has been a problem for decades […]
Popular comedian and musician Koffi Idowu sits on the board of the Copyright Society of Nigeria. He says the country needs to tackle piracy by utilizing cutting-edge technology. Such as barcodes. And the military. Meanwhile, legal streaming services are getting tagged onto banking services which are sharing customer information and habits with music companies. Joke? […]
A group of major music companies including Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros, has sued Internet provider RCN for failing to take action against pirating subscribers. The music companies state that the ISP deliberately turned a blind eye to pirating customers, while at the same time profiting from their activities. For roughly two decades, copyright holders […]