For more than a decade the music industry has attributed a massive decline in sales to music piracy. However, in a week where a report from the UK telecoms regulator indicated that piracy has plunged, no industry press releases hit the wire. Perhaps that's because the effect on sales appears…

Last week Google released a paper where it detailed all its anti-piracy efforts. The search engine responded to increased pressure from trade groups such as the RIAA and MPAA who pointed out on numerous occasions that Google could do more to address the piracy problem. After the RIAA released a…

The Center for Copyright Information, a partnership between the MPAA, RIAA and five large U.S. Internet providers, is teaching copyright classes in California public schools. The group, which also heads the six-strikes alert system, has developed a curriculum targeted at kids from kindergarten through sixth grade. Critics question how objective…

Later today RIAA CEO Cary Sherman will outline his organization's vision for increased cooperation between copyright holders and service providers. Sherman will seek agreements with user-generated content sites and promote a new understanding of the DMCA. File-hosting sites should be required to scan incoming links for piracy and search engines…

Last month we covered a new study from European researchers which revealed that the Megaupload shutdown had a negative effect on the box office revenues of smaller films. The researchers wrote a detailed report using weekly data from 10,272 movies in 50 countries spanning over several years. The researchers suggested…

A new study commissioned by NBC Universal shows that piracy worldwide is on the rise. The report estimates that in January of this year 432 million people used the Internet to access copyright infringing material. The total bandwidth consumed by these unauthorized transfers equaled 9,567 petabytes per month in 2012,…

Adding to the ever growing list of artists who embrace file-sharing, Madonna has teamed up with BitTorrent Inc. Madonna’s new 17-minute film, secretprojectrevolution, will be unveiled to the world next week via BitTorrent. The film is part of the Art For Freedom initiative through which the pop diva wants to…

For years online scammers have caused untold misery for people searching for free content online. Now McAfee’s seventh annual malware study has revealed that the trend won’t end anytime soon. Anyone familiar with Internet piracy in the 90s will be aware of the perils of crack sites. They weren’t selling…