What a Monday! Attendance may have been a bit lighter than normal, but a lively and successful NARM is winding down today in Chicago. (Be sure to read Overheard #NARM - TheNew Music Biz Is Down & Dirty) At the same time the music tech space is heating up in San Francisco at SF Music Tech. Hypebot will share highlights from both important gatherings including a live stream of the main stage action in San Francisco and participating in the live online chat. Get involved here.
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YouTube is getting 2 billion plus views daily. (paidContent)
- The Pirate Bay Goes Down Following Legal Pressure - The Pirate Bay is suffering some temporary downtime as their bandwidth provider has stopped passing through traffic. A week ago, Hollywood got an injunction to effectively shut down the Pirate Bay by threatening its provider with huge fines. The Pirate Bay vows to find a workaround. (TorrentFreak)
- 64% of Brits prefer CDs to digital music. Consumers are not ready to give up old media. (PC Advisor)
- Hurray!, a Chinese based provider of music, video artist development, music production and wireless music distribution has announced that it is selling all of its equity interest in Beijing Huayi Brothers Music ("Huayi Music") to Huayi Brothers Media Corporation. ("Huayi Media") for RMB34,450,000. (press release)
- Five examples of lame DMCA takedowns.(ars) Believe it or not, not all came courtesy of the RIAA.
- Do U Utherverse? - The second largest virtual world following Second Life, Utherverse boasts 5M+ users, has just announced they've hit 25,000 worlds independently created by users. Utherverse launched in September of ’09. It's quick growth is just another sign of the growing popularity of virtual worlds.
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Guy Hands and Terra Firma already got the money that they need to stop the foreclosure of EMI, but here's the story of a NY pension fund that had previously invested with Hands saying no to investing more cash for EMI. (NY Post)
- REWIND: The Music Industry's Week In Review. Just to be sure that you didn't miss anything.
- R.I.P. - Heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio.
