Illegal Peer-to-Peer Site OiNK Shut Down by Police
It appears Radiohead can now increase the sound quality of In Rainbows; Today, music file sharing giant OiNK has been shut down by British and Dutch Police, after a two year investigation in...
View ArticleStory of the Year: The October Surprise
October 10, 2007, is a day that will live in infamy in the hearts of major-label executives. That was the day Radiohead, after more than a decade with Capitol Records, self-released their seventh...
View ArticleTorrent Site Pirate Bay Suffers Outage, Anonymous Responds
A major file-sharing site suffered an extended outage over the past two days. The Pirate Bay told file-sharing blog TorrentFreak a power failure caused the outage, one of the longest for the...
View ArticleTorrent Site Pirate Bay Moves to Cloud, Sees Silver Lining
In the past year, more and more music has gone to the cloud, with Amazon, Google, and Apple launching services to store individual music collections on remote computers (see: Should You Dump Your Junk...
View ArticleDownloaders Beware: Copyright Alert System Arises as Torrent Sites Enter the...
And the war over copyright infringement on the Internet wages on, with the last couple of days revealing tactical moves from both sides of the battlefield. As SPIN reported yesterday, torrent site...
View ArticleKim Dotcom’s MEGA File-Sharing Network Adds Pirate-Friendly Search Engine
MEGA? More like Megaupload. Kim Dotcom’s new file-sharing service now has a search engine, Wired reports. The addition brings MEGA closer to the hilariously narcissistic digital entrepreneur’s previous...
View ArticleMusic Piracy’s Search Problem: Recording Industry Bringing the Fight to Google
The conflict between the music business and Silicon Valley is approaching a new milestone. As Digital Music News reports (via FACT), the Recording Industry Association of America has now asked Google...
View ArticleKim Dotcom’s Disembodied Head Vows iTunes-Beating Music Service at SXSW
Watch out, Apple. As the music-streaming business evolves at a pace that has the potential to remake the industry, a self-styled outlaw has taken explicit aim at iTunes, still the big kid on the...
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