More Music Industry News: RIAA Can't Stop BitTorrent, Spotify Thinks Big, Scholl To NBC & More

• RIAA and MPAA Can’t Stop BitTorrent, Study Finds - For years RIAA and MPAA members have hired companies to attack popular BitTorrent swarms in an attempt to interfere with their downloads. According to a recently published paper by New York University researchers, these attacks are highly ineffective. At best, they slow downloads for a few minutes, something most users don’t even notice.  (TorrentFreak)
• Spotify’s Ek Thinks Big: Packaged Service Promises ‘A Trillion Transactions’ - Ek communicated his desire to “package” music with mobile tariffs, ISP bundles, cable plans and with devices including TVs - a broad long-term vision that’s often overlooked amid the current Spotify hype. (paidContent) “The key for us is getting music in to people’s existing billing habits,” he told Screen Digest’s Future of Online Media Distribution seminar. 
• Greg Scholl, the president and CEO of independent digital music distributor The Orchard until he resigned a week ago, has been named president of local media platforms for NBC Universal, PaidContent reported. (DMW) Congrats Greg!
  
• Rumor: Apple To Switch On Sleeping FM Radio in iPhone, iPod Touch (Wired)
• Sony Premieres New 'Club Dates' Series of Music Concerts in Digital Cinema Theaters. (press release)
• Concert Vault: Free live recordings from Wolfgang's Vault on the iPhone. (CNet)
• Music Attorney Steve Gordon interviews Nettwerk's Terry McBride. (audio)