LimeWire: Will users turn to legal alternatives?

Experts argue that music industry must educate consumers about value of legal services after demise of filesharing site.

Recorded music sales fall by 10%

Recorded music sales fell by about 10% in 2009, and are down 30% since 2004, after rampant piracy ate in to traditional and legitimate digital sales.

Streaming will never stop downloading

Far from being a cure for the industry's woes, streaming wastes bandwidth, reduces privacy and slows innovation

Digital divide over filesharing plans

Britain's digital economy Bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaigners.

Seventy percent oppose ban for UK filesharers

Plans to force internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect suspected illegal downloaders have been roundly rejected in a new poll.

Anti-piracy campaign aims to win over 'Generation Y-pay'

After decades of messages warning that watching pirated films is a criminal offence, a new campaign aims to win over the "Generation Y-pay?"

Internet age re-inventing the music business

Music and internet worlds merged on Friday on San Francisco's posh Nob Hill as insiders brainstormed about industry rocking Web 2.0 trends.

Music industry may seek 'all you can eat' downloads

Things have moved on since the days when the greatest threat to the music industry was teenagers furtively slipping blank tapes into ghetto blasters.

French anti-filesharing law overturned

The French judiciary has rescued web users, striking down a law which would have allowed the state to cut off internet connections of filesharers.

Illegal downloaders are getting bolder

Warning letters are thought a deterrent by only a third of internet users -- but the threat of getting cut off would be much more powerful.

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