REWIND: The Music Industry's Week In Review

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  Warner Music's Rhino Records lays off 30-40.
• Kyle Bylin's The Digital Dilemma: Finding a Path to Salvation
• The Music Industry Pays The Price Of Negativity - It's Time For A New Conversation.
• Marketer Seth Godin says "Win the fight, lose the customer."
• Sony trys AmieStreet's variable pricing but adds major restrictions.
• Lilly Allen speaks out on piracy, quits her campaign after facing nasty backlash,  and then shows up at a meeting of other artists called The Featured Artists Coalition and wins their support for a modified 3 strikes plan. VOTE: Do You Support Lilly Allen and FAC's Anti-P2P Plan?
• Social Networking: 6 Ways To Make The Most Of Twitter's 140 Characters, MySpace beats Facebook with Twitter synch and Robo.to adds microvideos to social networking.
• Video: Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons briefly reminisce.
• Ringtones Continue Decline
• Video: Black Eyed Peas And Oprah Orchestrate A 21,000 Strong Flash Mob Dance
• Who Says CD Sales Are Dead? Remastered Beatles Sell 2.25 Million In 2 Weeks.
• Sony trys AmieStreet's variable pricing but adds some big restrictions.
• Just 9% of users are willing to pay for Spotify Premium.
• RIAA chief says the Music industry has "5 Reasons for Optimism".
• Guest essay: Lefsetz Is Wrong.
  
• Study: Illegal downloaders also buy and stream music.
• Lawsuit claims Guitar Center, NAMM fixed prices.
• New Music Seminar comes to Chicago Oct. 6th
• The Smashing Pumpkins will use the freemium model to release their new album.
• New Music Tech: Mobile video so far: promise vs. progress, Genro.tv encourages fan created "official" videos with contests and community and the Georgia Tech Edison Fund invests in Band Metrics.
• Midem adds a music tech showcase and 2 major keynotes.