Cobra Starship's single, "You Make Me Feel," has received double platinum certification from the RIAA.

The MPAA and RIAA are portraying MegaUpload as one of the world’s leading rogue sites. Kanye West, P Diddy, Snoop Dogg, will.i.am, read more]

Jammie Thomas-Rasset has lost her illegal downloading case to Capital Records, and she has been ordered to pay $1.5 million for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa; this breaks down to $62,500 per song.

It looks like Paramore's album brand new eyes has achieved platinum status in Australia. Congratulations guys and gal.

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Congratulations to Phoenix, whose album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has now been certified Gold, with sales over 500,000 in the US.

The RIAA has successfully sued Limewire for lots and lots of money.

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According to this study, those who download music illegally are the same people who spend the most on music.

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Green Day's "21 Guns" has been certified gold by the RIAA in digital sales. Additionally, the stage adaptation of American Idiot has been extended three weeks due to "record-breaking sales & unprecedented demand." Catch the band performing the song on the MTV Video Music Awards this upcoming Sunday.

Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune, talks about the downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn't their savior.

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A Minnesota woman has been ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.92 million, or $80,000 a song, for downloading 24 songs on Kazaa.

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File sharing on Twitter has arrived.

A new study has found that music pirates are ten times more likely to buy music than non-piraters. Yarr.

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Paramore's DVD "The Final Riot!" has gone gold.

Fall Out Boy's "I Don't Care" has been certified gold - selling 527,924 copies to date.

The RIAA will no longer sue file-sharers, instead they will work with ISPs to shut them down.

The man accused of leaking nine tracks from the Guns N' Roses album has pleaded guilty to a federal copyright violation.

President George W. Bush signed into law on Monday a bill that would stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level.

Muxtape is "relaunching as a service exclusively for bands". The owner has also posted a full explanation of why the Muxtape we had come to love is no longer.

Alan Ellis, founder of Oink.cd, has been charged with conspiracy to defraud and will face trial starting September 24th. Rolling Stone's article says that, "four OiNK uploaders who were arrested in the shutdown, dubbed “Operation Ark Royal,” will soon learn whether they too will face legal action."

Now that school is kicking back into effect, you might be curious what the RIAA and universities are doing to battle P2P downloading applications. Ars Techinca wraps up several colleges' new policies and plans of action in this article.

Secondhand Serenade's song "Fall For You" has gone gold.

Colleges may soon be required to "provide students with commercial music downloading services and implement traffic filtering technologies in order to deter peer-to-peer filesharing."

Paramore's latest album, Riot!, has gone platinum. Congratulations to the band.

Researchers at the University of Washington have shown just how simple it is to "frame" any particular IP address as an infringing BitTorrent user.

Curious how the RIAA catches downloaders? An article from The Chronicle for Higher Education explains.

The rest of the music world is moving past DRM; however, the RIAA never were ones to be early adopters.

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"(Recently) I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music and 20 of them still require DRM," RIAA technology unit head...[read more]

A new study says 95% of 18-24 year olds are "illegally copying music."

Some artists are wondering why they haven't seen any of the money from recent copyright settlements.

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"Artist managers and lawyers have been wondering for months when their artists will see money from the copyright settlements and how it will be accounted for," said lawyer John Branca, who has represented Korn, Don Henley, and The Rolling Stones, among...[read more]

The RIAA reminds Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) of the Mafia.

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“I have two different opinions on file-sharing” says Biafra, drawing a metaphorical line in the sand - with good (small labels) on one side, and bad (big labels) on the other. “You may take from the big labels,” he orders, “because the only...[read more]

A leaked "RIAA training video" shows the National District Attorneys Association telling U.S. prosecutors they should pursue music pirates because it'll lead them to "everything from handguns to large quantities of cocaine and marijuana," not to mention terrorists and murderers.
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