Hypebot's New Music Industry Briefing For Monday September 18th, 2006

- Consumer complaints are mounting over glitches in Apple's "revolutionary" iTunes 7 upgrade. (TechWeb) Some call it "buggy bloatware", but that hasn't stopped hackers from upgrading software that strips it of DRM. (Wired.com)

- Anti-DRM lobby Defective By Design is planning a day of action October 3rd.

- Taiwan file sharing site Kudo shuts down after lawsuit. (Reuters)

- In what could give a boost to struggling subscription services, the new Sonos music system upgrade allows listeners to turn off their PC and still access Rhapsody.  (Sonos)

- QTrax, the other ad supported download service, has added Warner Music to a pre-launch list that included EMI and The Orchard.

- The Shins are encouraging fans to video tape their Austin City Limits Festival appearance with cameras and cell phones and then upload it to be edited into a concert filmed from potentially hundreds of angles and perspectives. (Current TV)

- A look at Akamai, the company who enables efficient net delivery of the huge video and audio files we're all getting so used to. (BusinessWeek)