The music industry's latest salvo against piracy involves lobbying for "three strikes" laws that would require ISPs to disconnect users who have shared copyrighted files online. So far, the effort ...

The Swedish music industry wants to know who has been using an IP (Internet Protocol) address for what it considers illegal file sharing, and has filed a lawsuit with the Stockholm district court, the ...

Irish ISP Eircom launched a three-month pilot program on Monday that will see those who repeatedly share files under copyright cut off from their Internet service. Eircom is implementing the plan as ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of people suspected of sharing music, films and games over the Internet will be pursued through the courts for damages, lawyers for entertainment companies said on ...

German investigators charged 3,500 people with illegal music sharing, in the biggest single sweep of its kind, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said Tuesday. The file ...

Legislators are mulling a new law that would authorize the Department of Justice to file civil lawsuits against file-sharers. The Intellectual Property Enforcement Act of 2007, introduced last week by ...

Earlier this week, we posted a link to a proposal by the Songwriters Association of Canada, a non-profit advocacy group that represents the interests of songwriters. The proposal, which essentially ...

Stepping up its battle against online music piracy, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry announced thousands of new lawsuits against those it suspects of illegal file-sharing. The ...

About 1.8 million people in Japan are active users of file-sharing software, a sharp increase from a year ago, according to a survey by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), TV ...

The music industry began using a novel tactic yesterday in its fight against music piracy -- sending instant messages that pop up on the computer screens of people as they are swapping unauthorized ...

WASHINGTON -- The embattled music industry disclosed plans Wednesday for an unprecedented escalation in its fight against Internet piracy, threatening to sue hundreds of individual computer users who ...

Since September 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America has filed 8,400 lawsuits for copyright infringement against people who illegally share music on the Internet. Three of those cases ...