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  • 6th Jun 2012

    ACTA’s final act?

    As expected, ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) has suffered a serious set back this week, with the European Parliament voting to reject the controversial anti-piracy treaty.
  • 31st May 2012

    Lana leads digital boom
    Now, its time for some encouraging news that represents the exact opposite of every single sales story of the last few years- The boom in digital sales has resulted in those services representing 55.5% of all sales, leading to overall growth of 2.7% in the first quarter of this year.
  • 9th May 2012

    Peel vinyl online
    John Peel’s record collection is now available online, with the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts starting to upload tracks last week as part of an ongoing digital archive selected from the 26,000 LPs in the DJ’s vinyl collection.
  • 3rd May 2012

    BPI blasts Government
    The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), has turned the heat up on the UK Government to confront the ongoing effects of music piracy and “stop these endless reviews of copyright”.
  • 3rd May 2012

    Pirate Bay: block party
    A high court ruling has ordered several major ISPs in the UK to block access to notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay this week. It was revealed yesterday that Virgin Media is the first company to implement the crackdown against the file-sharing site, with other providers such as Sky, O2 and TalkTalk following suit soon after a ruling on Monday (30 April) by the judge Justice Arnold ordering the providers to block their users from accessing the site.
  • 20th Apr 2012

    Sweet deals for Spotify?
    It has been another eventful week for Spotify, as they announce growing revenues and losses alongside partnerships with more or less every transnational corporation on the planet.
  • 21st Mar 2012

    Pirate Bay scans the skies
    It's time for this month’s dose of digital drama, which takes a sci-fi twist with the news that the Pirate Bay are planning to launch “small airborne drones” that will keep their service alive as their founder prepares to spend four months under house arrest.
  • 7th Mar 2012

    BT and TalkTalk lose DEA dispute

    After almost two years of legal disputes, BT and TalkTalk have lost their final appeal against the measures of the Digital Economy Act. This effectively removes the final hurdle for the DEA’s ‘Three strikes’ warning system, meaning that the Government can now compel ISPs to send warning letters to customers downloading material protected under copyright.
  • 7th Mar 2012

    Twitter goes Gaga
    It may have played a big part in the Arab Spring uprisings and resulted in millions of people publishing mundane details of their daily routines but Twitter is back in the music news again with the announcement that Lady Gaga has hit 20 million followers.
  • 7th Mar 2012

    AIM is connected
    The Association of Independent Music (AIM), is staging its digital conference ‘Music Connected’ for a tenth year in London this May.Taking place on Wednesday 9 May at Glaziers Hall, AIM has confirmed that the conference will feature speakers from eMusic, Youtube, Noikia and The Orchard.
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