More Music News Fri. 9.4.09: Pirate Bay Trial 2, Roxanne A Liar, Facebook, Apple, XM & More

• Spectrial 2: Pirate Bay Appeal Scheduled for November – In April The Pirate Bay Four were sentenced to a year in prison, and on top of that each of them was ordered to pay the entertainment industry $905,000 in damages. The defendants soon announced that they would appeal, and the date for the new trial has been set for November by the Appeal Court. (TorrentFreak)
• It turns out that the story of rapper Roxanne Shante getting WMG to pay for her education was pretty much made up. (Slate)
• Facebook and the music industry experiment at the Outside Lands festival. (Inside Facebook)
• In praise of the VC – If you ask Pandora founder Tim Westergren where his company would be without the guidance of Crosslink Capital General Partner Jim Feuille, he has no trouble facing the music. 'We would barely register as an impact on the music industry."  (WSJ) Pandora has also just upgraded its desktop app. (Pandora blog)
• A roundup of the rumors surrounding Apple's Sept. 9th music announcement. (LA Times) Hypebot has its own list here.
• XM Canada has reportedly failed to pay music royalties since January 2005 and a Canadian musicians' group says the satcaster should be ordered to stop playing any music until it pays up. (FMQB)
• Dutch indie label that embraces BitTorrent upset over lawsuits against useful services. (Techdirt)