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One of the sad things about the current mess in the music industry is that artists are too often pitted against fans, when in fact both want...

Interesting figures from new research : Marrakesh Records and Human Capital surveyed 1,000 15 to 24-year-olds highlighting not just how impo...

Amazon.co.uk has finally opened its DRM-free Mp3 store . Prices aren't that wonderful (yet), but the convenience is dangerously appeali...

A study about downloading finds : Music companies need to stop resisting and accept that illegal downloading is a fact of 21st-century life ...

When I read this riposte by British Phonographic Industry's chief executive, Geoff Taylor, to an eminently reasonable column by Bill T...

Fascinating study from the University of Herefordshire on the music habits of "young people". It conveniently confirms everythin...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Jan. 15 becomes the last major record company to sell downloads without copy restrictions which would be gr...

The recording industry is an extraordinary example of not learning from experience. You would have thought that the backlash against its he...

Here's another billion reasons why DRM'd music downloads will die out - and why copyright law will need to be rewritten: Like milli...

There's a wonderful story in the entertainment industry's local rag, Variety : Young people prefer to download film and music illeg...

Great quote here : The most concerning issue is the growth of bandwidth as piracy has shifted from stealing an individual song on Napster to...

At a time when this is happening: The jail system is in "serious crisis" with overcrowding affecting rehabilitation of offenders,...