On Thursday, the Justice Department issued an indictment that charged the founder and other employees of file sharing site megaupload.com with participating in a conspiracy involving racketeering, money laundering and copyright infringement. And though founder Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz before he legally changed his name) and six of his associates were arrested and court [...]

Music streaming service Grooveshark already has been served with copyright infringement lawsuits by three of the four major record companies, and as of last Wednesday, the fourth major sued the company. EMI Publishing filed a copyright infringement suit against Escape Media Group in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday, according to a report by the [...]

The Los Angeles county department of coroner has concluded that the sudden death of rapper Heavy D was caused by a blood clot in his lungs. Heavy D died on November 8 at his home in Los Angeles, and the medical cause of death is listed as a pulmonary embolism caused by deep vein thrombosis. [...]

As a touring festival, the Van’s Warped Tour is quickly nearing its 20-year anniversary, and the first wave of bands that will play the 2012 festival have been announced and include Memphis May Fire and The Silver Comet. Additionally, dates and cities have been announced, though the actual venues will be revealed at a later [...]

Google held an event in Los Angeles on Wednesday to announce its new Google Music service, an MP3 store that is integrated with its current cloud service and will compete with existing services like the iTunes store and Amazon MP3. Comparisons of the store to iTunes and the Amazon store, among other competitors, abound in [...]

On Friday, it was announced that EMI, one of the four remaining major record labels will be sold, as the music industry continues the trend of consolidation. EMI was actually sold to two companies, with the record label portion of the company purchased by Vivendi, the company that owns Universal Music Group (UMG). Sony Corp. [...]

This is a sad day for the technology and music community alike as Steve Jobs has lost his battle with cancer, passing away at 56. No specifics were available though Apple did release a statement saying, ” We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were [...]

Its been a decade since Napster revolutionized the music industry with its peer-to-peer file sharing networks. After considerable legal wranglings over copyright infringement, the company shut its doors only to issue a massive wave of P2P copycats that would continue the revolution the way music is consumed to this day. The Napster name brand was [...]

Facebook users who love music, get ready. According to CNBC, in September the social network is planning to launch their own music service. Rumors of the new music service first started to surface in July when Jeff Rose, a tech blogger, published some code that appeared to be a call for downloading an application named [...]

AEG, the entertainment giant, has announced they are launching their very own ticket selling service online called AXS (pronounced “Access”). This means that AEG won’t be relying on Ticketmaster any longer, which is the dominant online ticket retailer that every year sells tickets by the hundreds of millions to event goers who are looking to [...]