Who Should Pay for Music and Movie Piracy? Internet service providers have been the target of several lawsuits in recent years faulting them for user piracy. That may change depending on the outcome ...

Canadian folk-rocker Neil Young is making waves this week after telling reporters at a conference that piracy is “the new radio.” “It doesn’t affect me because I look at the Internet as the new radio.

Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group that claimed to have "backed up" millions of Spotify's music files and metadata.

It's commonly known as piracy, but it's a too-benign term that doesn't even begin to adequately describe the toll that music theft takes on the many artists, songwriters, musicians, record label ...

A new study released Tuesday by the Texas-based Institute for Policy Innovation estimates that global piracy of recorded music has cost the United States $12.5 billion in economic output and 71,060 ...

As part of a series of articles on intellectual property, Adrian Johns writes about the early 20th-century battle in England between sheet-music pirates and music publishers -- a story that often ...

A trio of critical issues primed to dominate the copyright landscape in 2026 will test music-piracy liability, President ...

Music piracy is on the increase worldwide, with 40 percent of users are accessing unlicensed music, up from 35 percent last year, the global recorded music industry group IFPI said. Taylor Swift's ...

From the invention of the phonograph in 1877 to the boom in streaming services today, the music industry has had to constantly adapt to emerging technology. In this video, we explore whether music can ...

CD burning contributed to a surge in music piracy across the globe in 2001, with sales of pirated discs jumping an estimated 50 percent from the previous year, according to an industry report released ...

Worldwide sales of music CDs, records and cassettes fell for the third year in a row, hit largely by rising Internet piracy in the United States, according to an international recording industry group ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a major challenge to the legal precedent that internet service providers are liable for piracy by their users. Such precedent has been the foundation of a ...