Sunday Scare Tactics: Linking Is Not A Crime
Have you heard about this 16 year old kid in the Czech Republic who’s facing a 5 million euro damages claim for linking to copyright works? It’s as ridiculous as it sounds. Now the… Read More
Sunday Scare Tactics: Hollywood’s Internet Police Are Coming To Scare You
TorrentFreak reports that the Hollywood funded Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has been successfully convincing police into busting down doors of some of the lesser known torrent sites of the world. What’s interesting is that after… Read More
NRP’s Top 5 Music Stories Of January 2011
Well January flew by and 2011 is moving at a brisk pace in spite of the Winter trying to slow us down. Just in case you may have missed some of the New Rockstar… Read More
What Piracy Problem? Music Industry Has Best Year Ever In 2010
Torrent Freak sheds some light on the 2010 stats provided by the British Recording Industry (BPI). The BPI stats show how the industry has sufferd through another slump in sales in 2010.… Read More
Sunday Scare Tactics: Bad News For The Internet
Quietly over the Thanksgiving weekend American authorities made moves against a number of torrent sites. Via TorrentFreak Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links… Read More
Franz Ferdinand is Coming After You!
Franz Ferdinand is using Web Sheriff Confessed pirates themselves, Franz Ferdinand have recently taken a pro-piracy stance, encouraging fans to download some of their work. It was therefore quite a surprise to… Read More
Piracy, Control, and the Human Mind
There is nothing the human mind wants more then freedom. Freedom to choose, freedom to want, freedom to think, freedom. Freedom is the reason the internet works on such a primal level.… Read More
RIAA Curses the Darkness
Just a heads up for all you University and College students: The RIAA has convinced Tennessee to filter computer networks for unauthorized music downloads at the states colleges and universities. This piece… Read More
