Grooveshark seems to be having some issues lately, on April 6th their mobile app was removed from the Android Market and considering Grooveshark remained quite at the time, one could only really assume that the RIAA was somehow behind this mess. Though Google did state that it was removed due to a terms of service more »

The Grooveshark Mobile app was removed from the Android Market earlier this month after it was cited for violating some of the Market terms of service. Well, flash forward till today and coming as good news for anyone that was still hoping to download the app — it is now available from the mobile version more »

Grooveshark doesn’t have much luck in keeping it’s apps in app stores. Last August it’s ISO app was removed from Apple’s App Store, and now it’s been removed from Google’s Android Market. Google has only said that the app has violated Market policies, though Grooveshark says a complaint from the RIAA is the more likely more »

The controversial torrent hub and community ThePirateBay.com has been hit by a series of attacks led by malware researcher Ch Russo. The attack has led to the exposure of the user database for the site. Now, with over 4 million usernames and emails in his possession, Russo has said that groups like the RIAA and more »

The RIAA filed documents in a New York court Friday, demanding that it issue a permanent injunction against LimeWire, the largest P2P file sharing network in the country. The group, which represents the 4 top record labels, has been widely despised for years thanks to it’s insistence on doing everything it can to fight the more »

The Pirate Bay in its current form is just a a few days away from being handed over to its new owners and with that a complete archive has been uploaded and made available (via torrent file) for download. According to the anonymous person who posted the file, he just wants to make sure the more »

In an expected attack on the RIAA, The Pirate Bay is now advertising what it calls “The $675,000 mixtape.” The collection is comprised of the 30 songs that grad student Joel Tenenbaum was found guilty of sharing through filesharing services. The listing even goes so far as to say that it’s approved by the RIAA more »

The RIAA has won another outrageous settlement. A Boston student has been ordered to pay $22,500 each for the 30 songs he admitted to downloading and sharing. That’s a total of $675,000. A judge in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts found him guilty of infringement and asked the jury to decide damages. They were more »

Media companies have realized the near impossibility of attempting to sue each individual that downloads illegal music and other media. Instead, their new anti-piracy plan involves enlisting the help of Internet service providers to combat the issue. AT&T will be the first ISP to work alongside the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to stop more »

Last year, one of the neatest web apps available was Muxtape, a way for anybody to create a page with 12 of their favorite songs. People naturally took to uploading songs that are under the copyright of record labels, the RIAA intervened and shut the excellent Muxtape down.

Muxtape failed to gain the licensing required for the vast amount of songs being uploaded to the service, so it instead gravitated to the indie scene. Muxtape has returned, this time as a service for music artists to use to share their music with the world. As artists consent to having their music published on the site, users can make mixes out of the songs that are now legally available.