ISPs say it will cost AU$50 to block Kickass Torrents every time it pops up on a new domain. The Australian music industry wants to play that game of whack-a-mole, except no one wants to pay for it.

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Music fans hoping to download obscure tunes from the web have been hit with another roadblock, as the popular torrent site What.CD has shut down for good. The site's homepage currently has a message ...

What.cd, an invite-only music torrent tracker, has shut down yesterday, following a report in French media of police raids. The website, founded in 2007 and with an estimated database of 3 million ...

It took nearly 10 years, but authorities have finally targeted and taken down What.cd, which had risen to become the Internet's largest invite-only, music-trading torrent site. The news was confirmed ...

Controversial rapper Kanye West has been caught out browsing popular torrent website The Pirate Bay after posting a photo of his computer browser to Twitter. West posted a photo to Twitter, showing ...

The new torrent system is designed to help musicians, labels, and brands get detailed analytics on who is downloading their music. The project is designed to turn torrents into sources of detailed ...

Following changes to Australia's copyright laws last year, four music labels are attempting to force ISPs to block access to pirate streaming site KickassTorrents. Universal Music Australia, Warner ...

What.CD, an invitation-only torrent site that avoided the wrath of the music industry for nearly a decade, shut down suddenly Thursday following a reported raid on their servers in France. “Due to ...

The most popular invite-only music torrent site, What.cd, has been shut down following a series of raids on its servers in France. The operators of the site confirmed through Twitter that they are ...

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 ...