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In a 2010 submission to the US Government, RapidShare was described by the RIAA and MPAA as a “notorious market” for pirated media.

Just one year later the file-hosting service was given a tacit clean bill of health.

The only major RIAA-member label with an official Grooveshark licensing deal is suing the music streaming service.

EMI filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Wednesday against Grooveshark parent company Escape Media.

The RIAA is upset because Google refuses to remove the popular “MP3 Music Download Pro” app from the Android market.

“We sent a takedown notice to Google in August for this particular app, which is clearly being used for illegal purposes, and Google responded that they were declining to remove it from the Android Market,” [...]

Last month the MPAA and RIAA made a deal with all the major Internet providers in the United States to systematically hunt down file-sharers.

The new “Copyright Alerts” system will directly affect millions of Internet users, but thus far the participating parties have refused to disclose which monitoring company will act as anti-piracy detectives.

It’s time for the big reveal.

I wanted to do another follow-up on the post earlier today about the new five strikes plan "voluntarily" put in place by most of the major US ISPs and the RIAA/MPAA.

One of our key concerns is the fact that it's all based on accusations, rather than any actual proof of infringement.

The defenders of the plan say that it's okay because there are so many warnings and you can counter the strikes by asking for an "independent review." But...

We already covered the RIAA's subpoena to Box.net, but ReadWriteWeb has a post on the story that's worth pointing out, because it highlights this absolutely wonderful infographic that Ashley Angell put together a few months ago, mapping out

It's seems former RIAA lobbyist Judge Beryl Howell's recent decision that it's fine to lump together a bunch of totally unrelated copyright infringement lawsuits into a single lawsuit is increasingly looking like an outlier.

It’s taken a while, but Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries including the MPAA and RIAA.

The search engine now actively censors terms including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare and Megaupload from its instant and autocomplete services.

A few months back, we noted that Hadopi, the French bureaucracy in charge of sending out "you're an infringer" notices and then kicking people off the internet under that country's three strikes plan, was receiving 25,000 notices from record labels per day (there was some confusion on that story, as I originally believed Hadopi was sending out 25,000 notices, but it was only receiving that many).

The music industry has gone off the deep end. Now they want to lay the blame for music piracy on PCMag.com's doorstep.