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After threatening to withdraw from the IFPI, major label EMI has decided to hang around. The label’s support comes at a price for the IFPI, however, as EMI and the other labels will reduce their contributions to the trade group.

EMI was purchased last year by a private equity fund, and the label's new owners have been a bit more cost-conscious. The label's president, Jean-Francois Cecillion, confirmed that the new agreement will result in a lower…

The Big Four record labels - EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner have started legal proceedings to force an ISP to end piracy on its network. The action, brought against Irish ISP, Eircom, is the first of its kind.

Maybe just maybe, this could be a good thing!!Once the other countries see for themselves that it is indeed legally futile to try and censor the internet then every ISP will stop trying. And this wanker is talking about bandwidth hogging. If the…

The Pirate Bay has just launched jesperbay.org as a countermeasure to the Danish ISP block that was announced yesterday. The site is named after Jesper Bay, the head of the Danish IFPI and gives detailed instructions for affected customers on how to regain access to T

I love the TPB. I have used it for 6 months. However, I have found it sometimes just as easy to Google the name of the file you want with the word torrent afterward. Are they going to try to block all the search engines as well as the torrent…

According to TorrentFreak, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) last week released their latest report, summing up the digital music landscape at the start of 2008. The IFPI claims in the report that for every legal music download, there are 20 illegal downloads taking place.

There are also 2 big issues not mentioned here. One is that all expenses for the record labels are proximately 1-2 € per record (recording, post-production, cover design, photo shooting etc included), but the average price for a single record is…