vinyl outsells CDs for first time since the ’80s
Vinyl and CD sales also fell below ad-supported streaming services for the first time, according to the RIAA's 2020 mid-year report.
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streaming now counts toward gold & platinum LP certification
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today announced that they would now include streaming sales in the calculation of Gold and Platinum albums...
Anonymous taking down websites in retaliation for Megaupload; MPAA, Justice dept, RIAA, & Universal websites all down
"http://www.justice.gov & universalmusic.com TANGO DOWN! You should have EXPECT US!" - AnonOps
"Anonymous's favorite weapon for these attacks is what's called for a "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attack, which directs a flood of traffic to a website and temporarily crashes it by overwhelming its servers...
Megaupload shut down by the feds (not long after its public fight with Universal began)
Federal prosecutors in Virginia say they have shut down one of the world's largest Internet file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws...
RIAA wins against Limewire
In response to a federal court's ruling that peer-to-peer service LimeWire and its operators are liable for inducement of widespread copyright theft, Mitch Bainwol, Chairman & CEO, offered the following comment:
"This definitive ruling is an extraordinary victory for the entire creative community...
“Blogger sentenced for G N’R album leak”
"A federal judge has sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to leaking part of the Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy to a year's probation...
the Pirate Bay trial continues…
The music industry has lost more than 30 percent in sales since 2001 because of illegal downloading, a top industry official said Wednesday, giving evidence in a Swedish trial...
What’s going on Wednesday?
Skeletons @ Death By Audio, Jan 2, 2009 (thepiratehat)
Titus "Weezer" Andronicus @ Death By Audio, New Years Eve (thepiratehat)
today in NYC
* DANCE\
* One For The Team @ Cake Shop
* FOTP presents Yikes...
RIAA won’t be suing customers anymore, making ISP deals
* One ISP says RIAA must pay for piracy protection
* RIAA drops lawsuits; ISPs to battle file sharing
* RIAA's Cary Sherman says lawsuits were the only option
* RIAA president: No talk of blacklisting file sharers
* Podcast: RIAA shifts focus away from individual file sharers
* Copy of RIAA's new enforcement notice to ISPs
* Lawsuits or not, the RIAA still doesn't understand us
* Sources: RIAA budget will shrink soon
* Video: Will your ISP be 'asking' you to clean up your act...