Forbes

Pirate Flags: Music Business Says Piracy Still Threatens Its Future

As far as the record industry is concerned, the existential (and the literal) threat of piracy has not been negated by the rise of streaming. Legal action continues and studies claim the issue ...
Wired

The Pirate Bay Adds Music Discovery Tools

The Pirate Bay has rolled out some interesting new features designed to help users discover new music. When you go to a page containing a music torrent, provided TPB can parse out the name of the band ...
Pitchfork

38 Percent of People Still Pirate Music, Study Finds

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)—a trade group representing the global record industry—today released its annual Music Consumer Insight Report. Among IFPI’s most ...
Forbes

New Report Says Music Piracy On The Rise With 17 Million Stream-Rippers In 2018

Findings from market research firm MusicWatch’s Annual Music Study show that there were 17 million stream-rippers in the U.S. last year. That number is up 2 million from the 15 million stream-rippers ...
Bleeping Computer

PyPi package with 100K installs pirated music from Deezer for years

A malicious PyPi package named 'automslc' has been downloaded over 100,000 times from the Python Package Index since 2019, abusing hard-coded credentials to pirate music from the Deezer streaming ...