Within a calendar day of making a notoriously terrible first impression, HitPiece has zapped its website back to life, smug and arrogant and going through the motions of being apologetic without actually taking
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Tuesday was a wild day for independent artists and not in a good way. Details are still hazy but what appears to have happened is an NFT site, HitPiece, scraped digital distribution sites
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Metallica was booked to perform a virtual gig at BlizzCon, which is an annual event dedicated to the video games created by Blizzard Entertainment (Think World of Warcraft and Starcraft). Everything was fine
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YouTube won’t be helping musicians track down and demand payment from people who use tiny snippets of their music – less than 10 seconds’ worth – any longer. “Including someone else’s content without
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If telecom companies in Canada have their way, it’s possible net neutrality will be limited in the Great White North much like in the United States. The belief was that, thanks to a
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As expected, the US Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted along party lines to repeal Obama-era net neutrality regulations. Just before the vote, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released a little video. The video
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Here’s producer T-Bone Burnett explaining why the Internet hasn’t turned out what it was supposed to be–especially for musicians. T Bone Burnett on the Broken DMCA Safe Harbors from Content Creators Coalition on
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In what’s bound to be viewed a scary decision for internet service providers (ISPs), Cox Communications, a cable and internet company in Virginia, has been ordered to pay $8.4 million in legal fees
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A federal court in Virginia ruled that an ISP could be held liable for one of its users sharing pirated content, a decision now being supported by the RIAA and MPAA. As Torrent
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‘Tis the season, after all, to take stock of all that came before in the god-forsaken year that was 2016 and read the tea leaves to make predictions as to what will come
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has within it something called “safe harbour” provisions, intended to protect internet providers from any legal threats should users post material online without properly security copyright permissions.
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