Monday’s Music Brief: Seeqpod Down, BuzzNet Cuts, EU 70, Twitter’s Impact, Pirate Fund & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Seeqpod Down But Vows To Return
• Trouble At BuzzNet? Idolator Staff Slashed To 1
• A Social Media Strategy Outline For Bands
• Judge Denies New Request To Broadcast RIAA Trial. Harvard Team Fights On
• A Meat Puppet On "The State Of The Album"
• CBS Tops March Internet Radio Ranking
• REWIND: The Music Industry's Week In Review
• Music & The State Of The Economy

• Introduction to this week's Hypebot series
• Reverend Peyton: Rough Music For Rough Times
• Lucinda Williams: High Ticket Fees & Tough Times Don't Mix

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• European Parliament approves 70 year copyright for sound recordings.
• Numbers can’t begin to describe Twitter’s impact. (Epicenter)
• A sentenced Pirate Bay defendant and two politicians from Sweden's Green party are launching a fund to help people accused of copyright violations under the country's new antipiracy law. (CNet)
• Facebook Makes It Easier For Developers To Play With Its Data. (paidContent)
• An analysis of YouTube's content fingerprinting system (TechDirt)
• Novelist Rick Moody shares a playlist that is "somewhat against the grain as far as 'indie' music goes these days, the obscure, the experimental, the ancient, each devoted to the project and the vision instead of the results" on his Swinging Modern Sounds blog.
• Homeland Security Cranks Up The ‘Brain Music’ (Pollstar)