Idolator

Following yesterday's closure of the pop-centric MP3 blog Kevipod Music, which happened because the site posted a link to a snippet of Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body," other sites hosted by Google's free-blogging service Blogspot, like ALi's Blog, have been subject to DMCA smackdowns as well, although with a little Googling you can see that sites that are independently hosted or on Wordpress.com have so far escaped Carey's label's wrath. More »

The Canada-based BitTorrent tracker Demonoid, which has been a target of the Canadian Recording Industry Association for a few months now, has apparently decided to give up the fight. The site's front page now simply reads "The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding." More »