The story apparently started here, seemingly confirming word of 30 positions being eliminated, with a more apocalyptic version supplied by Hypebot, based on a source who says:

“It is about 90-100+ people across the US and global offices - anti-piracy, coordinated IFPI/BPI etc - trust me it’s a bloodbath…

The acronyms refer to overseas industry groups.  The phrase “trust me” doesn’t instill confidence, but the source goes on to say an announcement will be made this week, and supplies this further detail:

DC offices are getting closed except for one part of one floor on Conn. Ave., just for the address.

I don’t remember the DC office as having more than one floor, but for all I know they have an underground bunker. We’ll apparently see this week.

The organization is spinning the cutbacks as “tough economic times,” but since the record industry has been facing the toughest times of all going on for seven or eight years now, it seems more like the record industry is finally giving up on this destructive, vicious, counterproductive and stupid organization, whose anti file-sharing jihad has fruitlessly done its best to ruin the lives of people guilty of little else than liking music and distracted the industry from taking steps to deal with the changes in its business model.

I feel bad for the people are losing their jobs, but one can only hope that the larger number is the correct one, with corresponding decline in the group’s ability to harass music fans.

Meanwhile, as noted earlier, the group’s most despicable creation has reared back into view, working on—what else?—the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger.

update:  Greg Sandoval at Cnet has more details; he says the group has only 104 employees, making the 90 to 100 number pretty unlikely.

p.s. For the record, it’s worth saying that I acknowledge that, leaving aside the legal issues, file-sharing skirts some moral rough ground. Here’s the way I rationalize my opposition to a group that says file-sharing is stealing and that they are protecting their business:

1. It was obvious immediately to smart people and soon after that to dumb ones that the nature of digital information and the internet made it impossible to stop or even decrease file-sharing
2. It this context, the group didn’t even spend its time going after commercial or large-scale sharing set-ups; it sued tens of thousands of ordinary people, often though sleazy legal means, and kept at it even when it became clear that file-sharing would nonetheless grow astronomically.
3. This is a larger issue that deserves more exposition, but it’s basically true to say that the vast majority of artists don’t make money from CD sales. And, as is often noted, the industry had gotten cozy selling $15 CDs to people who really just wanted one or two songs. The suits were designed to protect a parasitical business model that put the record industry between artists and fans.  The RIAA essentially does business like the Sopranos:  They didn’t want file-sharers muscling in on the operation. It’s their job to rip off artists.