Virgin Media could start suspending persistent file sharers on a temporary basis, using information provided to it by the Universal record company. The ISP announced on Monday that it would, before ...

The U.S. recording industry is shifting away from suing file sharers and toward working out deals with internet service providers that could see downloaders have their access cut off, but the issue in ...

Freedom to Tinker raises an interesting concern that malware could be used to turn innocent iTunes Plus (Apple's DRM-free music offering) users into file-sharers. If a file is swiped from a customer’s ...

Action against illegal peer-to-peer file-sharers has begun in the U.K., Austria, Denmark, France, Germany and Italy. Trade org the British Phonographic Industry said Thursday that it is beginning a ...

It seems counterintuitive, but a new study says that file-sharing music lovers in the U.S. also buy more music than their non-file-sharing counterparts. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

FastTrack, once the darling of online file-sharers, appears to be losing its popularity. Reports in recent weeks — as well as data gathered by Internet traffic tracker Alexa — show a marked decline in ...

The music industry's latest salvo against piracy involves lobbying for "three strikes" laws that would require ISPs to disconnect users who have shared copyrighted files online. So far, the effort ...

Uploaders to eDonkey.com, Bit Torrent and other file-sharing networks beware: The commercial equivalent to Big Brother is watching you. BayTSP, a leading provider of online intellectual property ...

The U.K. record industry is claiming a landmark victory after the High Court ordered two men to pay thousands of pounds in fines and damages for illegally distributing music downloads using ...

President Bush likes to project the swashbuckling image, but this week it was the folks over at the Justice Department who formed the posse to go after the evildoers -- the ones on the Internet. In a ...