Blog: The 405

Student stool pigeons enlisted to tighten net on piracy

Student stool pigeons enlisted to tighten net on piracy Ever wondered how record companies find forum posts that link to music stored on a file sharing website and have them deleted even though the file name has no association with the artist or album? What? You’ve never looked at forums where music is shared you say? Well obviously we haven’t either but just in case you were wondering how these files were deleted it would seem a coalition of record companies called proMedia are behind it. The anti-piracy group features major record companies such as EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner and all [...]