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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sadly, the final days of summer are here, and many of us are trying to squeeze in that last barbeque, the last dip in the pool, and yes that last summer drink. As we savor our fancy watermelon ...