Analysis News Music piracy has plummeted in the past 5 years. But in 2021, it slowly started growing again.New stats from MUSO offer food for thought for the global music business
Analysis News Music piracy hasn’t gone away – it’s just changed shapeNew PRS report shows explosion in stream-ripping activity in market in past three years
News Music piracy ‘a significant issue’ says IFPI IFPI publishes Music Consumer Insight Report 2018 which analyses recorded music engagement across 20 of the world’s largest markets
News YouTube ripping site YouTube-MP3 shutting down after RIAA battleOver 60m people a month used site
News Sony battles online leak of Wizkid/Drake’s One Dance follow-upHush Up The Silence is the follow-up to global smash One Dance
News Music biz faces rampant piracy threat as stream ripping jumps 60% in 2016Muso data shows new form of piracy is growing at a rapid rate
News Universal, Sony and Warner sue Streamripping king Youtube-mp3.orgOwner Philip Matesanz faces various counts of copyright infringement
News PPL slashes anti-piracy spending as annual collections rise to £197mBPI contributions cut by a million as staff costs grow by £1.3m
News Frank Ocean’s Blonde has been illegally downloaded 750,000 times in less than a weekMUSO data shows popularity of Apple exclusive on torrenting sites
News ISPs may face ‘huge liabilities’ for music use after BMG’s $25m payout from CoxRightscorp tells ISPs: play by the rules, or pay up
News Google’s role in music piracy is much bigger than it first appearsSearch engines were responsible for 46% of traffic to illegal streaming sites last year
News A fifth of UK young adults use piracy sites – in Spain, it’s a thirdNew EU stats come from EUIPO report
News PRS For Music launches new anti-piracy tool MAPSCollection society launches MAPS with the Publishers Association
News Global music piracy downloads grew by almost a fifth in 2015But overall activity on piracy sites falls by 20%
News ‘The new Grooveshark’, Aurous, shuts down in $3m settlement with major labelsOwner Andrew Sampson hit with heavy damages as site transfers to RIAA