NEW YORK (Billboard) - Fifteen months after mixtape pioneer DJ Drama was arrested for racketeering, bootleg hip-hop CDs are as popular as ever. Sign up here. On a recent Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop ...

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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The high-profile police raid of the Aphilliates Music Group office in Atlanta that resulted in the arrest of DJ Drama and the confiscation of 81,000 mixtape CDs has ignited a ...

Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult. By Brian ...