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  Kim Dotcom's Disembodied Head Vows iTunes-Beating Music Service at SXSW

  March 12, 2013 – 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 song-downloading block. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, whose legal battle over U.S. …
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  Music Piracy's Search Problem: Recording Industry Bringing the Fight to Google

  February 6, 2013 – 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 to remove nearly 10 million links from its search results.According to Google's most recent transparency report, from May 2011 through February 1 the organization representing the major record labels filed takedown requests for a cumul …
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  Kim Dotcom's MEGA File-Sharing Network Adds Pirate-Friendly Search Engine

  January 31, 2013 – 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 file-sharing service, Megaupload, which was dramatically shut down by the authorities a little more than a year ago. …
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  Downloaders Beware: Copyright Alert System Arises as Torrent Sites Enter the Cloud

  October 19, 2012 – 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 Pirate Bay ditched its evidence-accruing servers in favor of a cloud-based data storage system. …
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  Torrent Site Pirate Bay Moves to Cloud, Sees Silver Lining

  October 18, 2012 – 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 on Google Drive?). The Pirate Bay is no exception. …
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  Torrent Site Pirate Bay Suffers Outage, Anonymous Responds

  October 3, 2012 – 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 copyright-dodging music and movie network since a police shutdown in 2006. …
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  Story of the Year: The October Surprise

  January 5, 2008 – 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 album, In Rainbows, digitally, without a price tag. The same day, news broke that Madonna was leaving Warner Bros., her label since the early '80s, to sign with Live Nation. …
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• Illegal Peer-to-Peer Site OiNK Shut Down by Police

  October 23, 2007 – 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 partnership with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), MTV.com reports. The mastermind behind the web site: an unnamed 24-year-old man living in the U.K., who was arrested this morning. …
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