It's 2026, and CDs are anything but dead. No, really — compact discs are the best bang for your buck medium for starting a physical music collection. Admittedly, I'm a vinyl head, but you won't beat ...
The music industry has scored a major legal victory, sinking the pirate outfit YouTube-mp3.org, a global “stream ripping” site operating out of Germany that was facilitating the theft of millions of ...
The two-part study by Britain's Intellectual Property Office and collection society PRS For Music found that stream-ripping increased by 141 percent between 2014 and 2016. By Richard Smirke ...
Whenever we write about applications such as HandBrake or RipIt, we get comments asking about whether ripping your DVDs to enjoy in a different format is OK to do. Here are answers to some of the ...
Many listeners consider CD ripping to be a rather simple process, and for the most part, it is. The discs go in, your software performs a little magic, and your songs are copied to the hard drive. Of ...
Instances of music piracy have risen nearly 15 times over in the last three years, new research states. The latest lead cause of piracy comes from so-called “stream-ripping” websites. According to new ...
The Recording Industry Association of America, the British Recorded Music Industry, and other industry lobbyists have sued one of the world’s leading websites. They say that Youtube-mp3.org ...
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has released its 2017 Music Consumer Insight Report and is none too pleased with the findings. Despite the fact that listeners on ...