A Seattle area bank teller was fired Monday after subduing a music piracy suspect in a local Key Bank branch office. The teller, 30 year old Johnson Nickles, tackled the self-proclaimed piracy enthusiast and held him captive until police arrived. Nickels was working at the bank Friday afternoon when a 17 year old male in [...]

The Federal Jury found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet. She has been fined her $80,000 each song at a total of $1.9 million for 24 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United States. The price tag on [...]

Many Artist often give away some of their music for free, but peer to peer downloading is stealing any way you slice it. Artists such as The Grateful dead, The Black Crowes, 311, AC/DC and many many more allow this, and most allow those recordings to be shared online. Additionally many indie artists would love [...]