Garth Brooks has overtaken Elvis Presley to become the best-selling solo artist in history.

The first person to be convicted of illegally downloading music said today she was “devastated” after being fined more than £100,000 (€142,733).

Music copied on to recordable CDs is becoming a bigger threat to the bottom line of record stores and music labels than online file-sharing, the head of the US recording industry’s trade group says.

US recording companies have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 computer users in the latest round of legal action in the industry’s effort to stop unauthorised swapping of music online.

PIRATED music and films are funding terrorist groups in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, according to top police officials.

The US recording industry today sued 493 more people it said were illegally sharing music across the internet.

The recording industry in the US sued another 477 computer users – including dozens of college students at schools in 11 states – accusing them of illegally sharing music across the Internet.

The recording industry in the United States sued another 477 computer users today – including dozens of college students at schools in 11 states – accusing them of illegally sharing music across the Internet.

Elvis Presley fans looked back to his beginnings as they gathered at Graceland to celebrate the 69th anniversary of his birth.

SRichard Branson’s ambitious plans for reviving sales at his Virgin Megastores is beginning in San Francisco, where shelves will soon be stocked with sex goods and a 24-hour street vending machine that dispenses the latest CD and DVD titles.

The US recording industry announced settlements with 52 of the 261 internet users it sued over allegations that they illegally permitted others to download music from their computers using popular file-sharing software.

A 12-year-old New York girl, who was among the first to be sued by the record industry for sharing music over the Internet, is off the hook after her mother agreed to pay $1,900 (€1,700) to settle the lawsuit.

A 71-year-old grandfather is among more than 250 Americans being sued by the music industry for downloading copyright music from the internet.

The US music industry was today stepping up its fight against Internet piracy by threatening legal action against hundreds of individual computer users who illegally share music files online.

The record industry has been ordered to provide proof it owns copyrights to music works it is seeking to protect in its lawsuit against Napster.

A San Francisco court has allowed Napster to resume its song-swapping operations on the Internet.

Napster was dealt another serious legal setback when a federal judge ordered the Internet song-swapping company to remain offline until it can fully comply with an injunction to remove all copyright music.

Napster has failed to overturn a landmark court ruling which resulted in an injunction blocking website customers from trading copyrighted music.

The judge in charge of Napster's fate said she may shut down the firm because of its failure to block songs on its site.

A judge in San Francisco says she may consider pulling the plug on Napster.

Napster has assured a federal judge it is complying with her order to police its system for unauthorised songs.

Napster has four days to block the free exchange of 135,000 copyright songs.

Napster is heading for a critical court hearing that could see all copyrighted music banned from the service.

The music industry is blaming Napster for falling sales of CD singles.

Napster has offered $1bn to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit that threatens to shut it down.

Napster fears a court ruling could force it to shut down its online music swapping service.

A US federal court is set to rule today on the fate of Napster, the Internet song-sharing service which is being sued by the recording industry for copyright infringement.

Fans of the song sharing service Napster have logged on by the tens of thousands for a last-minute grab at music they fear a US court may knock offline.