More Music Industry News: iPads, Subscriptions, Ba Da Bing, Hotel Royalties & More

• Apple has pre-sold hundreds of thousands of iPads but is scrambling to make media deals prior to launch. (WSJ) Admissions are now being accepted for apps. (AllThingsD). What music related iPad apps will developers dream up?  Does anyone know of any in the pipeline?
• 5 Reasons I’m Still Not Paying for a Music Subscription Service (Gigaom)
• Interview with Ben Goldberg of indie label Ba Da Bing Records. (Adequacy.net)
• Irish Collection Society Wants Hotels To Pay Performance Fees For Music Played In Guest Rooms. (TechDirt)
• Report: Music Industry Made $18 In 2009. (The Onion)
• Music biz insiders say Sony-Jackson deal makes sense. (Reuters)
  
• UK Anti-Piracy Lawyers Threaten File-Sharing Forum – ACS:Law have been making news headlines damaging to their reputation ever since they started sending out thousands of threatening letters to alleged file-sharers in the UK. Now they are threatening to sue Slyck.com, one of the Internet’s oldest file-sharing forums, because they don’t like what members have written about them. (TorrentFreak)
• R.I.P. – Maximum Rock N Roll's Bruce Roehrs