The Association of Independent Festivals have announced that the first deployment of their previously reported 'security task force' was something of a success.
News reaches us that The Pirate Bay peer-2-peer fileswapping site whose founders have all received one year prison sentences in Sweden for copyright infringement is to be sold and will become a legal site.
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis has said that he's happy to pay the £3000 fine that will be enforced because of a broken curfew, because the final minutes of Bruce Springsteen's over-running set at the weekend's festival “were worth it”.
The sold out Glastonbury Festival was watched by over sixteen million people on TV in the UK with figures topping 1.8 million average for Bruce Springteen's Saturday night headline show and 1.7 million for the early evening Sunday show that featured Tom Jones.
So I was at Glastonbury when the news of Michael Jackson's untimely death broke and it was a rather strange experience on the Friday as 177,000 people came to terms with the death of the 'King of Pop'.
The Virgin Mobile Festival USA will be rebranded as the Virgin Mobile FreeFest this year, and as you might have guessed, it's because this year's event is going to be free.
The second run of the illegal file-sharing case against single mum of four Jammie Thomas-Rasset has ended with the same result as the first, finding the 32-year-old Minnesota resident guilty of violating music copyrights and ordering her to pay hefty damages to the recording industry - set by the federal jury at $80,00 per song - or $1.92 million in total.
A gang of chart savvy popsters who allegedly made hundreds of thousands of pounds laundering money taken from stolen credit cards by buying their own sound recordings from iTunes and Amazon have been arrested in the UK.
France's somewhat controversial loi Hadopi law (the "three strikes and you're out" approach to dealing with unlawful file-sharers and internet-enabled copyright infringers) has been struck down by the Constitutional Council as being unconstitutional.
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