Oxford University has decided to ban the music streaming application Spotify because it uses P2P technology.

The Swedish ISP TeliaSonera is refusing to comply with a court ruling ordering the company to hand over information identifying the owner of SweTorrents.

IFPI Sweden are celebrating after new statistics reveal that in 2009, music sales were up for the first time in nearly a decade.

There has been a lot of talk about magnet links since The Pirate Bay decided to include them on their site recently.

Lawyers have presented their final arguments in the trial of Alan Ellis.

The Pirate Party may have won two seats in last June's European Parliament elections, but it's hard to see that in practice.

A few weeks ago Comcast decided to settle one of the class action lawsuits brought against the ISP in response to its BitTorrent throttling actions.

A new wave of cash demands connected with allegations of illicit file-sharing are being received this week.

As the trial of ex-OiNK admin Alan Ellis continues, more details of yesterday's proceedings have been made public.

A survey conducted by the New Zealand based research firm UMR Research found that nearly half of the respondents think that it's morally okay to watch porn on the Internet.

After the prosecution had their say last week, OiNK founder Alan Ellis told the Court his side of the story today.

Hadopi, the French agency charged with handling file-sharers' copyright digressions, has just made a huge infringement faux pas of its own.

Universal Music, EMI Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music are demanding one million Swedish kronor from two Pirate Bay founders.

As a nationwide gun ban took effect yesterday in the Philippines to reduce political violence as the country's elections draw near, an anti-piracy group has asked for an exemption.

Working on behalf of the MPAA and their Hollywood studio partners, anti-piracy outfit BREIN achieved a notable victory last year when it partially shut down Mininova.

BitTorrent's future might look grim to some, as torrent sites increasingly draw the short straw in legal cases brought on by copyright holders.

The Spanish cabinet has today passed legislation that will enable the authorities to shut down file-sharing sites more rapidly.

In what is being touted as a first-of-its-kind case, an 18 year-old Swiss woman has been hit with a fine and a two year suspended jail sentence after being caught file-sharing thousands of songs

During the last two decades, the Swedish band Rednex have sold more than 10 million records, with number one hits in eight countries including Germany and the UK.

The trial of OiNK administrator Alan Ellis is underway. Yesterday the jury was picked and today it was revealed that Ellis had gathered $300,000 in several Paypal accounts over the years,

In the first sitting, dozens of proposed amendments to Britain's Digital Economy Bill started to move through the Lords committee stage yesterday.

Every day copyright holders send thousands of DMCA takedown requests to various torrent site owners.

Last month a court rejected calls from Hollywood to order the shutdown of the OpenBitTorrent tracker.

Joel Tenenbaum, the Boston student hit with $650,000 in damages back in July 2009, has finally filed the next round in his case.

In 2007, the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK was shut down by Dutch and British police.

In December 2009, Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Lorenzo Fertitta testified at a hearing of the US House Judiciary Committee, claiming that the UFC is losing millions to online piracy.

The Finnish record label Lion Music has announced that it will not sign any new musicians until politicians have managed to stop piracy.

While warning that consumers could get ripped off if they don't shop around when buying music, an expert on saving money says that if it's serious about winning over pirates,

The music industry has made it quite clear that the Internet is a scary place full of pirates.

Many writers have been penning top 10 lists of one kind or another recently, either reviewing the last decade or looking forward to the next one.