50 Cent says he isn’t snorting coke, but some in the industry may think that he’s talking like he’s high. In an interview with P√•l Nordseth in Oslo, Fitty denied taking coke on live TV in Zagreb and then went on to talk about how file-sharing was inevitable and that the music industry needed to [...]

Billionaire blogger & HD video guru Mark Cuban has an interesting perspective on the controversy over the issue of Internet companies blocking P2P traffic: “BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC , PLEASE,” asks Cuban. “As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down [...]

TorrentSpy, one of the most popular sites for .torrent sharing, has been ordered by US federal judge Jacqueline Chooljian in the Central District of California that, despite the site’s privacy policy, which states they will never monitor their visitors without consent, they must start creating logs detailing their user’s activities. This information could then be [...]

The RIAA is increasing the pressure it puts on colleges and universities to restrict activities on school networks, sending thousands more complaints to top universities this school year than it did last year. A few schools, including Ohio and Purdue universities, already have received more than 1,000 complaints accusing individual students since last fall. For [...]

A new study in the Journal of Political Economy has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the RIAA and other music industry organizations. The study, The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis, by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman [...]

Zune articles. Archived stories from Zunerama’s Zune blog. Some Zune users are starting to get upset with the limitations imposed on the device’s wireless sharing technology: Zune’s wireless sharing is described by Microsoft with a footnote – indicating that “the Zune to Zune sharing feature may not be available for all audio files on your [...]

The venerable BBC has announced plans to offer hundreds of episodes of its programs on a file-sharing network for the first time, Azureus’ Zudeo. Until now, most BBC programmes found on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks have been illegal copies. Azureus is best known for developing a BitTorrent client, or program, that allows large media files to [...]