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 ...

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 ...

Prohibition was supposed to end alcohol in the U.S., but instead it created a generation of clever and daring bootleggers. These individuals didn't just smuggle liquor; they outsmarted authorities, ...

Wartime price and priority controls have already brought back an old U.S. institution: bootlegging. Patriotism alone will not suffice to enforce the new overall price ceiling announced by OPA this ...

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 ...

Bootleg recordings of live concerts may no longer be a federal crime in New York City, at least if one judge's opinion is upheld. By Billboard Staff NEW YORK — Bootleg recordings of live concerts may ...

If Prince was simultaneously fixing his Coachella performance (such as through his own taping of the event), then a third party's independent recording of the event should be covered under 106, in ...

The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History, by James Higdon, Lyons Press, 400 pp., $24.95. When the United States lost the ...