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 ...

As more and more artists push back against fans recording concerts on their phones, a rarely-invoked legal statute could come into play. By Rachel Stilwell In the year preceding his untimely death, ...

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 ...

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With Bethel voting to enter local option alcohol regulation, bootlegging becomes a felony. Often, the crime has been at the center of local option debates. If liquor stores go away, will bootleggers ...

STRATFORD — Frank Swarbrick offered a few words to allay any possible concern as he reached into the back seat of the 1932 Chrysler C1 sedan parked in his driveway and extracted a Tommy gun. “I want ...