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Music Industry News: GigsWiz Ticketing, LimeWire Against Pirates, Kiss YouTube Shutdown & More

  • French Study: Music Streaming More Popular Than Downloading (Evolver)
  • GigsWiz adds social ticketing features. (MusicAlly)
  • LimeWire Disavows New 'Pirate Edition' (WSJ) 
  • If Other Industries Were As Evil as the RIAA. (Cracked
  • iTunes Store: How It Rose, Why It Matters. (MacTalk
  • SoundCloud says that more than 100 third-party applications for mobile, desktop and the web have been created on its open platform.

6a00d83451b36c69e20133f58067d2970b-800wi More Music Industry News & Commentary:

  • Echo Nest founder says "Bands should not have to pay to play at Midem" and offers a solution. (Echo Nest)
  • Google Adds Some Snark to Facebook Open-Data Battle (Epicenter)
  • The Harry Fox Agency has expanded Nat Annamalai’s role to Vice President, Business Development & Revenue Assurance.
  • BT and TalkTalk granted judicial review of UK’s Digital Economy Act. (Music Ally)
  • Ask the indie professor: Is it strictly a man's world on tour? (Guardian
  • Why Ridiculous Statutory Rates For File Sharing Are Inappropriate. (TechDirt
  • My Chemical Romance 'scrapped 28 boring songs' (NewsBeat
  • RadarMusicVideos, which helps match pvideo producers with musicians and labels, were chosen yesterday as the best tech start-up by a panel of six judges in the TechCrunch Europa awards.
  • Aspiro sees sharp increase in music streaming and downloads. (Music Week)
  • WB musicman Danny Gould dies. (Variety)
  • How to do band reunions. (Guardian)
  • We7 And TDC: Two More Steps On The Path To Transformational Innovation/ (Forrester)
  • The official YouTube video channel of American glam legends Kiss has been closed for breaching copyright laws – just weeks after bassist Gene Simmons controversially called for all rights breakers to be sued and jailed. (RockRadio)

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