LOS ANGELES — A revamped online file-sharing service aims to woo legions of music fans by offering unlimited, free song downloads that are compatible with iPods, and all with the blessing of major ...

Music downloads among U.S. adults have risen sharply during the past several months, despite a crackdown by the music industry to curb such behavior. Between February and March, the number of people ...

Here we ask two players in the fight to command how movies, music, video games and more are distributed on the Internet -- Monique Wadsted, the lawyer prosecuting The Pirate Bay case for major motion ...

It's been a tumultuous seven-ish days for internet users of a certain generation. Last Sunday, rumors began to circulate that the legendary mixtape archive DatPiff was gone for good, though the site ...

People have been trying to come up with a legal way to share music since the heydays of Kazaa and Napster. Record labels weren’t ready to relinquish control, though, and arguably, consumers weren’t ...

BRITNEY SPEARS: (Singing) Oh, baby, baby. MARTÍNEZ: Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Shania Twain. In 1999, album sales were at their absolute peak. Steve Knopper follows the industry for ...

Colleges are a focal point of file sharing because students have access to high-speed Internet service and an interest in music and pop culture that outstrips their financial means. "Yeah it is [wrong ...

A tech-savvy university near the Missouri Ozarks is resorting to an old standby to reduce illegal music downloads by students: the pop quiz. Missouri University of Science and Technology now requires ...

What stops fans from file-sharing music? According to a new study released by Thumbplay, a cloud-based music service, 70% of their users stopped file-sharing music upon engaging with Thumbplay Music.