In April 1971, the BBC current affairs show 24 Hours ran a short film about bootleg albums – then an emerging problem for the music industry – and spoke to two band managers whose names would become ...

As more and more artists push back against fans recording concerts on their phones, a rarely-invoked legal statute could come into play. By Rachel Stilwell In the year preceding his untimely death, ...

Two and a half years after a federal judge held that making and selling bootleg recordings of live concerts was not a federal crime in New York, an appeals court yesterday reversed that decision. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Doobie Brothers confront Rerun and his giant tape recorder on What's Happening!! (Photo: YouTube) And … most important … why ...

With Bethel voting to enter local option alcohol regulation, bootlegging becomes a felony. Often, the crime has been at the center of local option debates. If liquor stores go away, will bootleggers ...

“For the past three months, an employee at Gawker Media has posted copyright videos sandwiched between ads for Gawker-owned properties such as Valleywag and Gizmodo.” This quote is from a very ...

STRATFORD — Frank Swarbrick offered a few words to allay any possible concern as he reached into the back seat of the 1932 Chrysler C1 sedan parked in his driveway and extracted a Tommy gun. “I want ...